The 50 questions designed for Questioning Artists, ground sourced through friends, far and wide. Designed for the Union Bulletin Newspaper over the course of the great year 2019, in Walla Walla Washington. Intention was to pull back the curtain on the allusive beast called the artist. We make a portrait, I write my associative thoughts, they answer the questions they feel are appropriate to answer. To read the project.
What do you call yourself?
How long have you been in the Walla Walla Valley?
What moves you, what brings you most alive?
How does fear play a role in your work?
What would you say in a moment of bravery?
What does the pursuit of Authenticity look like?
A hug or a handshake?
Titled work or untitled?
Art School or no art school?
Describe a pivotal moment in your life
When you make your work, when do you think about its presentation?
When have you felt the most seen? Or understood?
What is your favorite place to be in Walla Walla County? What do you hear, taste, and smell there?
Childhood game that feels pertinent to your work now?
Do you draw?
How do you handle rejection?
Is your art: your work or your hobby?
Are you an artist? What makes you an Artist?
Describe your work to someone who cannot experience it
Talk about a connecting thread that spans throughout your work
What is your best mistake?
Do you write? What do you write about? Where can we read it?
Name and describe an unusual place, that you would like to see your work, here in the Walla Walla County?
Describe an another artist that you would like people to learn about .
Where do you make your work?
What is your favorite tool? How do you use it?
What do you do during your favorite hour of the day? Which hour is it?
Speak about Mentors and or, apprenticeships in your practice.
Where are you going? How will you know when you have gotten there? What if you never arrive?
Who are two people you would like to introduce to each other?
Music or quiet, when you work?
Is there anything you're hoping to be asked?
What is your favorite question? ( and answer)
What is something we should know, that we don’t?
What did you have for breakfast?
If you could do or be anything other than what you do or who you are, what would you do or be?
What will you leave behind? What will you take?
Where do you find courage?
What are your necessities to be successful?
What is success?
Reuse or a brand-new?
Were you sickly or isolated when you were young?
Any advice?
What does “doing your work” mean?
Share someone who is politically, historical, intellectually, artistically or emotionally significant
Do you nap?
What did you eat for lunch?
What is happiness?
Do you read stories or make up new ones?
What are you reading? Do you have a podcast suggestion?