I met Jared at the Ocean Springs Art Walk a few months ago. Between numerous musical projects and his paintings and drawings, saying he stays busy is a serious understatement.  I’m amazed he has the energy or time to do much else.

Q.Were you born and raised here or elsewhere?
A.Born in Ocean Springs currently live in Gulfport.

Q.Please tell us a little bit about your art.
A.It ranges from bright and cute to dark and morbid just depending on my
desire to paint. My style has more in common with tattoo flash and
graphic novels than the classics in the art world, though I’m a fan of
them as well.

Q.Do you do any work in other mediums?
A.Acrylic mainly but I do a lot of inkwork which is mainly for band
commissions like covers and shirts and whatnot.

Q.How long have you been creating?
A.I’ve been drawing since I was 4 and have up till I was around 20.
then I pretty much stopped cause I was busy with music and picked it
back up with painting when I was 24 since I had much more free time
thanks to the storm.

Q.Which artists do you feel you take the most inspiration from or admire?
A.Salvador Dali, MC Escher are the two main ones. though I don’t think
either really shows through with my work. I’m also rather horrible
with names but there are far more influences than them.

Q.What do you feel gravitated you towards the arts?
A.I feel a desire to create. I’d like to leave something behind after
I’m gone so that someone might remember that I existed. This is how I
chose to do so.

Q.Where was your work first exposed to the public?
A.I know I had a piece that was a collection of bones that I painted in
watercolor back in the 5th grade. it was put in those art shows they
have at the mall. i didn’t personally see it there but i did sell
thanks to that. Not sure what happened to it after that, i was told it
was a doctor who wanted it for his waiting room and actually wanted me
to recreate it on canvas with oil or acrylic. I can’t really remember
why that didn’t take place.

If you’d like to get in contact with Jared Moran for his art you can get him from either of his Myspace pages.

http://www.myspace.com/shaolinlambkiller

http://www.myspace.com/cavepaints

Musical work

I guess a little back ground, I’m self taught on guitar(14 years),
bass(14 years), and drums(9 years), and I do quite a bit of vocals.
I’ve been playing in assorted bands on the coast for around a decade.
I’ve been open to all forms of music since very young, when I first
actively started picking music to listen to I only really listened to
classical. Then on i moved to distorted guitar. I say this mainly
because there wasn’t really a move into like alternative or classic
rock to metal or anything. it was kinda all at once. i was fasinated
with just the sound that could be created with a guitar. I saved up my
money and bought a guitar when I was 16 and a bass later that year. I
didn’t get a drum kit till I was 19 but didn’t actually start playing
it seriously till I was 20.

Most people have known me from Recovery Period (bass, vocals),
Seppuku(drums), Driven By Suffering(bass/guitar), and the
Nautilus(drums).  None of these really have anything for sale they all
pretty much ran their course as well.

And this is what I’m currently involved with a lot of these bands are
either going to be me and one other person or just me cause I have
slowly found through the years that it’s so much simplier that way

54R- all encompassing grind band. I write all the music and perform
all on recording
http://www.myspace.com/54rgrind

the men behind the sun- drums & vocals. odd power violence/grind band.
http://www.myspace.com/themenbehindthesun

Filtheater- old school death metal. I wrote and performed everything,
though it’s not actually known that it’s just one person. I have
presented it as a full band to greater success due to that.
http://www.myspace.com/filtheaterband

Zombie Raiders- old school death/grind. writing all the music and
playing guitar, bass & vocals. I just joined this band so the first 3
songs are the ones with my work on it.
http://www.myspace.com/zombieraiders

I guess I’ll stop with these bands because those are the 4 that have
things for sale and my work up on the sites to listen to. but I’m also
part of quite a few more
Hommel- drums. death metal.
Immaculate Molestation- all instruments. death metal
Coffin Terror- drums. death metal
Crawl- drums. death metal
Shokushu Goukan- all instruments. grind/death
RAUM- vocals, bass. http://www.myspace.com/raumdoom this has a demo up
Eats Aids- odd deathgrind
Ithaqua- guitars&bass. funeral doom
Bionic Hammer- drums. death metal
Demense- bass, vocals. death metal
Cosmic Atrophy- drums. death metal
Uzumaki- everything. atonal death metal.
Old Woman With No Teeth- drums, guitar. freejazz grind
pecker parade- drums. grind
Kamakazi Pilots- probably everything depends on a guitarist commitment or not
Lusitania-bass & vocals. Doom
Roach Patrol- guitar & vocals. power violence
Rejected Flesh- everything. death metal

I think that just about covers it. lol seems like a lot but it’s all
balances out when I’m not working on one I’m working on another. I’m
used to practicing with multiple bands 7 times a week up to 8 hours a
day. and that was with working 2 jobs and going to school. So this is
actually a very light load nowadays.