USING PAINT ON CARDBOARD, AN ARTIST ALLOWS HIS MATERIALS TO “REVEAL MYTHOLOGICAL CHARACTERS”

The self-taught artist Cour d’Blax-Neeck (Instagram: @courdblaxneeck), who is based in California, regularly uses different kinds of found cardboard as a support surface for abstract or randomly patterned paintings and drawings that often include representations of the letter H as a graphic element or that feature H-shaped compositions.

Cour d’Blax-Neeck is affected by Tourette Syndrome (TS). For readers who might not be familiar with this condition of the nervous system, as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention describes it, “TS causes people to have ‘tics.’ Tics are sudden twitches, movements, or sounds that people [make] repeatedly. People who have tics cannot stop their bod[ies] from doing these things. For example, a person might keep blinking over and over.”

Recently, we sent the artist some questions about his art-making ideas and methods. Here is his description of the intriguing, deeply personal body of work he has produced to date.