Star Wars Galaxy 4 Sketch Cards Q&A with JK5

With psychadelia-explosions of colors electric and mundane, iconic images and even the usage of text, JK5 aka Joseph Ari Aloi completed 100 die-cut shaped cards for the Star Wars Galaxy 4Trading Card series by TOPPS - and TRE managed to have a lil online chat [TAGGED] with the man behind JK5 = CLICK THRU to read.

TOYSREVIL: WHO is JK5?

JK5: JK5 is a 38 year old artist that lives and works in brooklyn, ny. i work in a wide spectrum of mediums, and my drawings take many forms: tattoos, paintings, toys, clothing, sculpture, film. to check out my manifestations: JK5NYC.COM, SAVEDTATTOO.COM/JK5, Joseph Ari Aloi/facebook,
MISHKANYC.COM, MYSPACE.COM/JK5IVE


TOYSREVIL: WHAT was the inspiration behind your sketches? What was the concept you had wanted to portray?

JK5: the concept for my sketch cards was to create 100 distinct, and unique works, and birth a few stylistic categories in the process.

TOYSREVIL: What was the medium you used?

JK5: Sharpies, marker, pen and ink, colored pencil and graphite.

TOYSREVIL: Any favourite card in the series you've created? Or piece of artwork?

JK5: I think my favorites are the super psychedelic abstract ones, that were based on the forms of some of the costumes, also the text based ones.


TOYSREVIL: What is the Best (or Favourite) and Worst memory of Star Wars you have?

JK5: my best memories are seeing the original trilogy when i was 7, 10, and 13. my worst memories was when jar jar binks appeared in episode 1, and when boba fett died in the lamest possible way in "jedi."

TOYSREVIL: Man, that is so true about Boba ... If you could be a Star Wars character (from the 6 movies) - who will you be, and why?

JK5: I would be yoda. he's the buddha of the star wars universe.


[All photos by Bryce Ward / More images can be found hjere]