Heartsurge Art Collective

Interview with our featured artist
Jake Logsdon
http://aeleath.deviantart.com/

Heartsurge:	Hi Jake and congratulations on being the featured artist for Heartsurge's Exhibit C! First off, tell us something about yourself.
Jake Logsdon	I'm Jake Logsdon, I was born in Tacoma Park, Maryland, though I've moved so much I don't really have a 'hometown', I'm 19 years old and my hobbies are music, 3D Abstract art and 2D art, poetry and mathematics. I made art for about 4 years back in the days before picking it back up about a year ago.
Heartsurge	That's a nice biography there Jake. How is the moving between homes influencing your life? Do you like it?
Jake Logsdon	I didn't at all when I was younger but I like the change now, switches things up.
Heartsurge	For this exhibition you have made three excellent submissions. Which one is your favourite and why?
Jake Logsdon	Parthenon, it was my first venture into a different style, more 2D than 3D though I fused both elements together. I just like how it came out, felt fresh to me. To me, it's almost surrealist since it seems like a space backdrop with earth objects in it like butterflies and vines
Heartsurge	As I've seen from your other two submissions, you like to make a whole atmosphere in your work with extensive background elements which all suggest a nature-esque theme. Is that correct?
Jake Logsdon	Yeah, I try to go for at least an element of photorealism while contrasting it with the non-realism of the object or environment itself.
Heartsurge	It does give the suggestion that the object itself is incredibly huge and massive. Really makes it come over as something immersive.
Heartsurge	You can definitely see that back in both of them. How did you actually made Sequoia into the piece we can all see here?
Jake Logsdon	I took a few different renders from Cinema 4D and smacked them in a canvas. Eventually it started looking like a tree so I added in clouds relatively small and a branch coming into the screen to establish scale and depth. To finish it up I worked in some natural elements like vines climbing and such.
Heartsurge	And it turned out amazingly! For Exhibit C; what would be your overall favourite submission?
Jake Logsdon	I can't really decide honestly. But if I had to, I'd choose the Puerto Rico photo from Finnian Macmanus. I also really like Excalibur from Christopher Pham. It's hard to choose though!
Heartsurge	It was really a pleasure to get a peek in the life of Jake Logsdon from North Carolina. Do you have any last words from yourself to both the rest of Heartsurge and of course the rest of the world?
Jake Logsdon	Sincerely, I wasn't expecting to be a featured artist so thanks a lot! The group is really coming together now, which I'm really glad about. Let's just keep getting better!

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Exhibit C

Release date : March 6th, 2011
Solo Artworks : 28
Collaborative works : 4
Photography : 8
Music : 2
Featured artist : Jake Logsdon

Music

Individual Artworks

Lost by Finnian MacManus	Data Stream by Chandler Janse	Ubiquitous by Finnian MacManus	Wise Thoughts by Sam Hue	Sommerprosse by Ricardo Berber	Parthenon by Jake Logsdon
Ain't a shame to let it out by Kees van Duyn	Optic Drift by Keith Rodri	Lose your mind by Amanda Deming	Climax by Adriel Dizon	Maelstrom by Jake Logsdon	Where the mad things flow Romain Clervoy
Amalgamation by John Hayes	Fade .01 by Fabio Selvatici	Branch Out by Romain Clervoy	The Venerate by Philip Brunner	Compendium by Sahir Khan	Sequoia by Jake Logsdon
Terrestrial by Philip Brunner	Skull by oucho	Comet by Adriel Dizon	Dreams by Kees van Duyn	Contemplations by Sahir Khan	Transcendence by oucho
Destiny's Misfortune by Sahir Khan	Space by Raymond Hellesoe	Lotus by Dona Vajgand	Excalibur by Christopher Pham

Collaborative Artworks

Departed
Philip Brunner & Parker Gibson

Extrinsic
Chandler Janse & Philip Brunner

Dreamstate
Sahir Khan & Philip Brunner

Emanation
Sergey Vlasov, Philip Brunner, Finnian MacManus & Romain Clervoy

Photography

Puerto Rico by Finnian MacManus	Enude by Joeri Taelman	Retrospective by Rik Salomé	Admonitio by Niko Leskelä	From within by Niko Leskelä	Infinite Sky by Rik Salomé
El Captain by Philip Brunner	Into the Mountains by Rik Salomé