WERE JUST Matter
At the end of the proverbial day... All your shit is Just Matter and by extension doesn’t really matter. When cynically arranged, that infinite factory line of symbolism made material can sell your kids toys and cack to rot their teeth. When artfully arranged it can tell a story.
Brain Scran Records day one art-sorcerer supreme WERE JUST Matter constantly gathers the stream of disposable detritus in his periphery and spews it out into visual narratives. You will never catch the guy painting sunflowers in a vase. WJM spent lockdown in a caravan in Spain refining the art of mashing the superficial into the primal, creating something that feels like the work of Salvador Dali and Basquiat’s impossible lovechild after binge watching every episode of Scrapheap Challenge.
Composing work that wanders the terrain between dystopian, pop, psychedelia and graff, he can be found subverting a range of formats… An architecturally accurate etching of a cathedral with a pussy as its entrance. CHECK. Mechanical/Tribal/Satirical/Comical headfucks. CHECK. Hiding secret messages about the illuminati in his art that you can only see with a magnifying glass. CHECK. Drawing Human portraits that, whether ugly or glorious, celebrate the intricate flaws of a tribe of 8 billion apes with too many accessories, staring down the barrel of a collapsing future. CHECK.
The fact that WERE JUST Matter spans a vast range while maintaining a signature style speaks to the unique niche he’s whittled for himself. Case in point: His artwork to spec for PROSPECTS, Sane and Chie & King Bracket for Brain Scran Records detailed an acid soaked bender in a tumbler, a mask at sea and personal objects spiralling in a whirlwind out of Chie and Bracket’s unravelling craniums. Radically different final works that bear no resemblance to each other but all bear his clear fingerprint. In the name of giving some other designers some shine, our next few releases might feature some other artists but rest assured WJM will be rearing his chaotic head on Brain Scran bits in the near future.
DISCLAIMER:
WERE JUST Matter has not approved this statement. He’s not even really pushing his art. WERE JUST Matter doesn’t give a flying whoopsyfuck about a critic’s opinion. WERE JUST Matter accepts no responsibility for arousal, vomiting, independent thought or killing sprees in response to his work. You should probably buy some of his art though: https://linktr.ee/Were.Just