CAN WE HAVE FUN?

For the fourth cover story of Arxipelag Volume III (Fun), we link up with powerhouse duo David Brandon Geeting (photographer) and Lina Sun Park (artist and set designer). Together, they drop a fresh series of self-portraits, paired with a sharp interview by Enrico Caputo on how they juggle fun, love, and the grind.

Lina Sun Park: “David is a master of distortion, I have seen him make vastly different images from what I see in front of him, to what shows up on his camera. It’s not even distortion really though, it’s more like a personal zooming-in, an editing down to the most alchemical sum of the parts before him. He is actually pretty loose on trying to control his work, and is open to how certain objects want to behave. He has a set way of approaching his work, he shows up as he always does, and lets whatever happens next unfold.”

David Brandon Geeting: “I think Lina doesn’t even know what she’s distorting, which is quite beautiful. She’ll always look at the most eerie arrangement, turn to me, and say “that’s so cute!” I always tell her that’s her special power. What’s cute to her is blasphemous for half the people that will see it. And it works, because art needs to be polarizing to have any reason to exist.”