Kevin’s work has a cartoon-like quality to it, which is misleading. The pieces he makes tell stories through his characters and through little hidden messages like word search, crossword puzzles, games. He says that most of the work is actually talking about the idea of the communication and sometimes miscommunication. One person on one side of a piece might speak something to the person on the other side of the piece, and it may not be completely understood.
“I’m actually telling stories that seem very real in that way,” Kevin says. “They’re not like easy stories. One thing I like to do is to have a surface that seems really sweet and maybe even little cute when you first look at it, but then once you get to know the piece a little bit better, you realize that there are some serious thoughts going on below the surface and that there’s room to investigate.”