In With A Tim

Introducing our favourite boy of the moment, Tim Chapman. Tim is an exceptional Artist.

We decided to shake things up for this new interview. So, after much deliberation on how to conduct a new method in asking questions, we decided to get to know Tim Chapman by asking him to participate (unknowingly) in a popular psychiatric test.

Rorschach (Ink blots) is a popular method to decipher a person and their mental mind state.

Because Tim is a visual creative, we thought this test would be far too easy for him to sit and way too hard for us to “professionally” analyse.

Instead, we opted for the Word Association test. We looked up Dr Jung’s top 100 test words and they were all shitty. In the end we decided not to plagiarise Dr Jung’s dumb list.

We gave Tim eight of our own words, he answered back and then we analysed his answers.

In a crazy creative frenzy, we totally DaVinci decoded Tim! He’s amazing. Enjoy!

Mon & Sam say: INCOGNITO

Tim says: “Ray Bans“

Here’s an excellent example of symbolism, when it comes to figuring out Tim Chapman. In decoding Tim’s answer, we believe he may be subconsciously referring to the life and times of Bob Dylan. Mr Dylan sucked on a Motorbike so much that he crashed in to a tree back in 1966. History suggests that Dylan was dressed in his Ray Ban Wayfarers and a white T-shirt, on the evening of his accident. Speaking of t-shirts, one of Tim’s images feature on a T-shirt for the Kiwi, clothing brand, Thank Goodness. One half of Thanks Goodness is Ruben Bryant, who is also the owner of Good As Gold in Wellington. It was at Good As Gold, that Tim had an exhibition titled “Party on a Motorbike” and a Bob Dylan look-alike crashed the party.

Mon &Sam say: T-PAIN

Tim says: “Hater”

T-pain sings a song featuring Kanye West called Flight School. Judging by one of T-Pain’s previous songs (Buy U A Drank), it is shamefully obvious that T-pain didn’t embark on any sort of schooling experience (let a alone a fucking flight school). Anyway, because T-pain is a hater, he didn’t pass Kindergarten, then he couldn’t get his required marks for gangster-school. Thus making T-Pain a self-taught, rap-artist. Get this, the brilliant Tim Chapman received a rejection letter (we’re not making this up) from the art school he had applied for. Tim was so determined to nurture his artistic abilities that he got himself a nearby studio and attended the lectures on campus anyway. Tim is a self taught artist!

Mon & Sam say: JAPANESE FOOD

Tim says: “Digestive Delight“

This shows that Tim is fond of Japanese food and alliteration. Here we go. Dunedin-Don is a digestive delight that delivers diverse dishes . That’s just an extension of his alliteration for the letter ‘d‘. We have come to believe that Tim is originally from Dunedin. Yes, he grew up on a farm there.

Mon & Sam say: ANDROID

Tim says: “Rooks Knife Trick (alien movie)”

What an answer! For Tim to remember the knife trick (from the Sci-fi film, Alien) means that he is a bold and dangerous guy *swoon*. However, we wonder if he may be a slight racist towards Androids, because Bishop (the Android who did the knife trick in the movie) copped some serious flack from Ripley (a prejudice human woman AKA Sigourney Weaver). Anyway, in the end they kind of fell in love. Maybe, Tim would one day feel inclined to date an android, fall in love with it, adopt alien children and live dangerously in space…That would be rad! Last year, Mr Chapman displayed his work in Sydney, at The Monster Children Gallery. His exhibition was called “Be Rad“. It was a huge success. We didn’t see any knife tricks but we saw a girl open a beer bottle with her teeth. Apparently she was some sort of crazy, kick-ass android named Dareb (which is also the name of an Imperial Pilot in another Sci-Fi film called, Star Wars). Dareb is also Be Rad backwards. Holy shit!

Mon & Sam say: UPPER THIGH

Tim says: “Black eye“

Please excuse us as for getting a bit indolent here. Tim refers to the colour “black” and we know a place called “Black Box”. Black Box (a fashion store) in Auckland (Surrey Crescent) held an opening for some of Tim’s recent work. The Exhibition was titled Snake Pit. That was some easy decoding! Oh, the exhibition was amazing and the party was lovely. Check this out!

http://www.frontrowdiary.com/party-people/58

Mon & Sam Say: WHIZ-BANG

Tim Says: “Altona”

Altona is only about 8km away from the Melbourne CBD. It’s also a place in Germany, which is the home of Mercedes Benz. Tim is currently preparing for his next show which, is in Melbourne. After that he plans to move back to New York. OK, New York is nowhere near Germany or Melbourne but within New York there is a place called Altona and that’s in Clinton County. Clinton County was named in honour of a guy called George Clinton (two US Presidents partly share the same name). George Bush was President after Bill Clinton. Bush has a wife called Laura Bush and Laura attended Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in New York and turned up to two of the shows in Bryant Park. Last year, Tim lived in New York for two months.

Mon & Sam say: LA POLICIA

Tim says : “Espanol Police“

OK, so he’s some sort of Spanish speaking fugitive.

Mon & Sam Say: COFFEE

Tim says: “daily”

Caffeine is great, especially if you’re moving to the “city that never sleeps”. Well, we already figured out that Tim is moving to New York and he obviously drinks coffee daily. So, we put his answer “Daily” in to an anagram generator (we needed the extra-decoding help) and we got “Lydia“. Mon has a Grandma named Lydia, she was born in Madrid. She’s a Spanish speaking fugitive like Tim!