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With every passing day, it feels as if our IRL lives and URL lives are slowly merging and becoming one. Already light years ahead is artist George Jasper Stone, whose work looks prefer it got here straight out of the 12 months 3021. “I feel like day after day interactions that were previously physical will change into digitalised,” Stone says, “essentially more of the digital-ecosystem will spread into our every day lives.”

Beautifully charming, yet at times, haunting and childlike, Stone’s work reimagines natural landscapes in digital form, but every creation has an unnatural twist – a stack of fans blow a meadow of poppies, or a silver horselike creature majestically gallops across a field. Elsewhere, a terrifying futuristic rat has evolved to switch its nose with a glowing USB port and the human body is nothing greater than a shifting, amorphous pool of colour. 

It’s unsurprising that the artist’s work has captured the eye of the likes of Maison Margiela, Off-White, Byredo Makeup, and even Dazed Beauty – where Stone reimagined beauty tribes of the future as a part of the Dazed Beauty Space x Selfridges project. 

“I think that queerness in digital artwork can reverse the normative structures of what those digital tech tools are traditionally used for,” he says. “It’s exciting seeing queer artists finding their voices and making work that’s used as a political counter-measure or as resistance.” 

“I think that queerness in digital artwork can reverse the normative structures of what those digital tech tools are traditionally used for. It’s exciting seeing queer artists finding their voices and making work that’s used as a political counter-measure or as resistance” – George Jasper Stone

As we steam ahead towards an increasingly digitised future, Stone is already working on numerous projects – “a movie, an album cover, a few music videos, and storyboarding some more concepts”, he says – that could have us all plugged in and uploading into our brains before we comprehend it. “I’m most eager about what’s emerging, with different tools and ways to create,” he concludes. “In a way, it’s difficult to determine a boundary between a digital world.”

Here, we speak to the artist about his inspirations, referring to Edna Mode from The Incredibles, and moving towards a utopian future.

Where do you reside/ where are you from?

George Jasper Stone: I currently live in south east London. I grew up in a small village within the Midlands just under the Peak District. Being in a distant a part of Derbyshire I had quite an in depth connection to the outside. 

What’s it you do and the way did you get into it?

George Jasper Stone: I’m an artist working on CGI movies and pictures. I experimented with projection and installation at university studying Fantastic Art in Falmouth. In my final 12 months, I wasn’t sure about what I might do as a profession. I used to be applying for work experience on film sets after which after graduating, I started a job within the art department on a Netflix series called The Crown. 

I used to be inspired by production design and commenced practising technical drawing. Realising that the concepts were essentially very limited by the access to materials and resources I started to look for a creative medium that wasn’t necessarily tied to the physical parameters.  That is once I began experimenting with 3D. 

I then got a job working at a CGI production studio in Borough called Treatment. I used to be almost living within the studio space. I had little life outside of labor but I used to be driven by learning different techniques. It was exciting developing a small understanding of those fundamentals. It gave a framework for being experimental without the restrictions of physical resources like set design. 

What are you trying to speak through your work and why? 

George Jasper Stone: It’s quite difficult to explain, but my process is primarily intuitive. I suppose a definite aim is to have a connection to an audience and take them on a journey into the concept with their very own perceptions, but I really need my work to give you the option to carry someone’s imagination. 

Who or what inspires you? 

George Jasper Stone: From living in a small village in Derbyshire and by the ocean in Cornwall, natural elements influence my work. I’ll often draw references to the ocean, forest, or an organic element in an environment. Contrarily, I’m also inspired by machines, robots, and uncanny synthetic surrealist environments, outsider art, magic-realism, and sci-fi movies.

Are you able to talk us through a few of your favourite images you’ve got created? What response did they get?

George Jasper Stone: Recently, working on Off White’s ‘Imaginary TV’ for Virgil Abloh was great. There was total freedom in a extremely supportive way and it was a collaboration with a few of my favourite artists (Razorade) and musician Kai Smith.  

Working on a design for FKA twigs was also considered one of my favourite projects. I needed to reimagine the AVANTgarden logo in 3D. I wanted the physicality of the article to suggest a story of the way it was made. 

What’s been your profession highlight to this point and what do you hope to perform ultimately?

George Jasper Stone: I’m really grateful for all of the people I actually have worked with. I just wish to proceed making artwork but in addition now take breaks and experiment with other creative things.  

What does beauty mean to you?

George Jasper Stone: I feel prefer it’s being compassionate to all sides of yourself.  

Describe your beauty aesthetic in three words.

George Jasper Stone: Play, intuition, and experimentation. 

How do you say your identity and experiences through your beauty?

George Jasper Stone: I feel like my identity is most visible within the work I make. Although I’m probably the least assertive person. 

Which fictional character do you most relate to and why?

George Jasper Stone: Wall-E or HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Or Edna Mode from The Incredibles. 

When do you are feeling most beautiful?

George Jasper Stone: I truthfully just love food a lot, so probably after eating a meal.

How do you would like to change the world?

George Jasper Stone: In some ways. I don’t feel like one person can do it. But, I feel if the queerness in my work is someway supporting empathy and compassion for the things we don’t yet understand, that’ll be a superb place to begin.

You’re the editor of a time-travelling beauty journal 100 years from now, what beauty trends are you reporting on?  

George Jasper Stone: How technology is influencing the sweetness industry, what can’t be replicated digitally and what has change into obsolete. 

It’s the sixth day and you’re creating humans. They will look nonetheless you would like them to. What do they appear like and why?

George Jasper Stone: Possibly if every a part of the body was transparent like glass? I feel like having antlers might be interesting. Although that could be a bit inconvenient after some time… 

What’s the longer term of beauty?

George Jasper Stone: I feel like understandings of the longer term are going to be at all times changing. But I hope it’ll be pretty utopian, being radically more inclusive, diverse, and self-expressive