As you know the type of person I am (I believe we both are) I constantly have ideas bumping around in my brain, colliding with each other, mutating and sometimes becoming something else entirely. I believe in dialogue. Sitting around the campfire and telling each other stories of how we got here and what happened along the way and where we think we’re going. Filling a space with our thoughts and ideas. Creative communication, sharing ideas to take back home into ourselves to bump around with all the other thoughts and bits.
With that in mind, I was thinking an interesting way to start this dialogue would be through a series of mini interview-style questions. It’s been a bit since we last sat down so what if we were to take on the roles of interviewer and subject and ask each other 3 questions each:
(here are some questions, maybe a little pretentious sounding but this is what spilled forth when I imagined sitting down with you around a bonfire with poking sticks in hand)
- The term “unprecedented times” when referring to the year 2020 has become a stock phrase at this point (09.08.2020). How does this phrase make you feel as a creative? What thoughts/images does it conjure? What could lie beyond these times of such a universally accepted & unprecedented nature?
- Should stories have endings if time is constant? (the difference between a happy vs sad ending is when you chose to stop telling the story). Does all creative work need to be fully understood by the audience instantaneously – or can it’s true worth only be valued over time?
- Why is telling a story so important/powerful?