The Bite Magazine Issue 17

and a tool I created to paint the looks similar to a paint roller. All of which resemble the tools a house painter would use.” His work expands into other art media as well. Depending on what motivates him, Zielke has experience in everything from digital and graphic design to sculpture. This renaissance man’s skills really know no bounds and what’s next for him is difficult to say. “I believe every artist will say the same: we constantly find new discoveries from studying our own work or other’s work; always appreciate the process of our work but look forward to producing something better as soon as we are finished. We chase after an impossible perfection but love the journey.” However, one can be abso- lutely certain that his creations will forever find a devoted fan base for years and years to come, and that his memories will go on to inspire others to look back and find the beauty in theirs. In the end, Zielke hopes his work speaks of this exploration through this notion via symbolic language using a personal syntax, grammar, and physical toolset to explain the connection between mark making and the instant identity in a minute of creation. “Through this process, my work explores a personal philosophy and speaks to the ancestry implied within the marks of the medium.” As Aristophanes said long, long ago, “Let each man exercise the art he knows.” www.justinmzielke.com bite artist profile