Adam Martinakis: Passion for Creation will Always Bear Fruits

I tell them normally that I am a digital artist because it is strange to describe that I try to dig into the universal soul to find salvation and compose artworks with pixels and elements that don’t actually exist.

I’m reading The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship by Charles Bukowski, a small book which is actually a collection of his journals, funny and inspiring ones.

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe comes to mind when I think of my childhood. It was the first book that I remember reading, a kind of Odyssey for the children.

It was hard for me, when I was growing up, to imagine a satisfactory story of me working in a profession, so I was afraid that I would not become anything. I had a great passion though with maps, travelling and astronomy so finally I became an artist. Art is the greatest trip of all.

Yes, of course, I remember painting a lot at that time and some art teachers were pointing out that I had this artistic talent. But it needs more than that to proceed and develop your artistic abilities to become a professional. It needs, amongst other factors, luck too, which I have had plenty of in my life.

Oh, I think he would be extremely surprised and relieved that I made it this way, but I guess that is the essence of life.

It would be Ascesi: The Saviors of God by Nikos Kazantzakis. But now that I think about it, I gave it to myself as a gift at that time.

My whole life does not have a routine, therefore my reading cannot either. But I have to admit that I like reading in the conservatory of my new house. During the day when the light is dominant.

I think the book that had the biggest impact on my career was The Origin of the Work of Art by Martin Heidegger. It helped me look at the work of art with a different perspective.

My advice would be to work hard, experiment without limits, fall in love and believe strongly that the passion for creation will always bear fruits.

Paul Klee, Andrei Tarkovsky and Oscar Wilde just to mention three but there are many, many more.

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. I read it just after the death of my father.

I think the book I have recommended most to them is The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway.

I like both, it doesn’t matter if it is fiction or not as long as it is well written.

I do!

I can’t answer that because many things happened in my life in the past year and I did not have the peace and time to read and immerse myself in any book that would impress me much.

I have a very good relation with technology and I read a lot from the internet. But when it comes to books I definitely prefer the paper.

Well, many books are pieces of art by themselves but if you mean the visual art that I am occupied with, I would say they are related by blood, they feed each other.

Oh, that is really hard to tell as every human is a different personality, but I would suggest The Odyssey by Homer.

Strangely, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley had a strong impact on my life and my work as well.

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Slowness by Milan Kundera, Death in Venice by Thomas Mann, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo, Platform by Michel Houellebecq, Shikasta by Doris Lessing, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, De Profundis by Oscar Wilde, Cannery Row by John Steinbeck, just to name a few.

I don’t plan those things, but I do plan to read a lot of books in the next year, to make back for the lost time.

Sex, Art and a Computer.