Photo credit: Jared Yamanuha
It began, appropriately enough, as a standard interview. I asked Evil Genius questions and he provided me with answers. Piece of cake, I assumed, as we kibitzed about design for Chromatic Magazine. Shortly thereafter the questions I asked became more like statements, theories, and a dialogue ensued. What started as a simple interview turned into a debate: we disagreed about Marcel Duchamp, argued about the impact of Henri Cartier-Bresson and William Eggleston, fought about the aesthetic value of abstract art. It was a great conversation about art in general and Hawaii art in particular. However, reading twenty pages of us pontificating was not, I felt, what readers wanted to read. So, I opted to prune it down to the essentials, free of unnecessary ornamentation much in the same way Evil Genius’s letters are free of such extraneous flourishes.
