11/1: Nikodem Pregowski
11/1*, Vol 15: Nikodem Pregowski
#2: What is always worth the price?
Good design of course!
#3: You have unlimited space and unlimited resources. What will you make?
The biggest Lego structure ever seen – whole city with streets, cars, bridges, real buildings, airport etc. I love Lego and always dreamt to have unlimited number of various parts to build something really big.
#4: It’s not working: try something new or persist?
I’m a stubborn person and always try to find a solution. It really gets me angry when something does not work properly. The same is while working on my projects. I try to improve them many times, cause usually first attempts and sketches make my cry.
#5: In general; start from chaos and reduce or start from silence and add?
I have a third path – start from chaos and add.
#7: Pasta or sushi?
Definitely pasta – sushi is too sophisticated for me. Simpler food just taste better.
#9: What two things must be together to satisfy you?
Great food and excellent beer.
#13: What famous artwork do you like least of all?
Salvador Dali’s “the Persistence of Memory” (and in general Dali’s works). I have never understood, what do people see in Dali’s paintings? He’s one of the most overestimated guys in history of art. His work seems to be pretentious and to be honest – it’s kitsch. I think there were more interesting surrealist painters than Dali, but, unfortunately, he’s the best known.
#14: What work of yours is the favourite?
It’s really hard to speak on your own works because it’s impossible to stay objective and honest.
Nevertheless if I had to choose it propably would be the “Animal Guerilla” series in which I defined my position as a graphic designer who was hired by a paramilitary organization Animal Guerilla. I designed the series of projects which encourage various species of animals to take revenge on the injustice caused by the human race. The action taken by animals was supposed to be a brutal guerilla which aimed at killing people and performing nasty tricks. I took the approach with an intention to confuse a viewer (obviously homo sapiens) and appeal to the sensitivity while telling the story of animals lives à rebours.
It is a series of great importance to me as it became a pretext to seek and explore new solutions for the theme of ecology which is too serious and often boring.
#15: What is the one thing you fear about your work?
To be taken too seriously.
#20: You can spend an hour any place and at any time. Where and when?
Anytime at the space station orbiting around the Earth, to see how does it look like from the outer space and to feel a zero gravity.
#23: What object or tool is perfect?
Your own eye and hand.
*I’m sending 23 questions to artists, designers and musicians and asking them to answer 11. I think these questions give revealing answers, especially regarding creative work. Here are their responses. As these are interviews I’m publishing their answers as they are, fully appreciating that English may not be their first or preferred written language. Thanks to all the participants.
11/1: Damo Suzuki
11/1*, Vol.14: Damo Suzuki
Damo Suzuki is a vocalist and performer from Germany. Formerly a member of the legendary Can.
#1: Twelve hours of the perfect day or twelve hours of the perfect night?
24 hours of perfect day.
#2. What is always worth the price?
Quality, good philosophy, nature, out of this system, nothing commercial (mainstream).
#3. You have unlimited space and unlimited resources. What will you make?
Make own vegetables. Make happy animals. And to have Water source is important.
#4. It’s not working: try something new or persist?
If it’s not working, it may matter if something fits not good to that project/matter. Then I’ll ask if my passion was right, was it right time at right space? Actually everything goes well when you have good philosophy and 100 percent energy of yourself, it’s not matter of perspective other people. Everything what you do is in a way successful. It’s matter of perspective.
#5. In general; start from chaos and reduce or start from silence and add?
Both situations are interesting. Any situation, I’m able to make something in very own way. Adventure, skill, risk, are all well come. To solve problem is much interesting than all go just smoothly. (Because you have end station in your mind before you start.) Process has much weight as it’s living and every direction to go.
#6. When does a piece fail? When does a piece succeed?
Fail, if you’ve done not with your 100 percent plus alpha. Succeed, just opposite. But, it’s not matter of fail or succeeds, it’s the question of perspective.
#7. Pasta or sushi?
Both! You cannot compare, both come from different culture, history, and way to cook. If philosophy (quality) is OK, all are well come.
#9. What two things must be together to satisfy you?
There is much substance for source of satisfactory. Passion, longing, endless… may be these.
#10. What is your favourite machine?
Anything in kitchen.
#11. What incredibly useful thing doesn’t exist yet?
There is always useful thing exists, just we human don’t realize for example… nature, energy sources, etc… I don’t need anything more, I just don’t like to destroy all nature God prepared for human being. We have everything we need.
#13. What famous artwork do you like least of all?
There are many… if I have to choose, probably paintings by Casper David Friedrich.
#14. What work of yours is the favourite?
Everyday’s performance.
#15. What is the one thing you fear about your work?
Nothing.
#16. What habit have you had the longest?
Being Damo Suzuki.
#17. What about yourself can you not trust?
Nothing.
#21. What is your favourite plant?
All plant on this planet has her own mission, why I have to choose one?
#22. What is your favourite type of bread?
Home made, using organic materials.
#23. What object or tool is perfect?
Time.
*I’m sending 23 questions to artists, designers and musicians and asking them to answer 11. I think these questions give revealing answers, especially regarding creative work. Here are their responses. As these are interviews I’m publishing their answers as they are, fully appreciating that English may not be their first or preferred written language. Thanks to all the participants.
11/1: Justyna Sarsari
11/1*, Vol.13: Justyna Sarsari
#2. What is always worth the price?
Bettering yourself.
#3. You have unlimited space and unlimited resources. What will you make?
My ceramic interpretation of human behaviour and lack of empathy in today’s world.
#4. It’s not working: try something new or persist?
PERSIST!
#7. Pasta or sushi?
Sushi.
#10. What is your favourite machine?
Diamond circular blade bench saw.
#11. What incredibly useful thing doesn’t exist yet?
Teleport!
#12. You own a store that only sells one type of object. What is it?
Doesn’t matter what as long as its non-functional.
#14. What work of yours is the favourite?
London Bricks.
#17. What about yourself can you not trust?
My temper.
#19. What is the most important thing you’ve learned in the past month?
Smile and wave! Never forget! Haha.
#23. What object or tool is perfect?
Knife.
*I’m sending 23 questions to artists, designers and musicians and asking them to answer 11. I think these questions give revealing answers, especially regarding creative work. Here are their responses. As these are interviews I’m publishing their answers as they are, fully appreciating that English may not be their first or preferred written language. Thanks to all the participants.
11/1: Euglossine
11/1*, Vol. 12: Euglossine
Euglossine is an artist and musician from Gainesville, Florida.
#2. What is always worth the price?
Tooth brush. Totally almost destroyed my gums with a cheap one. Never again.
#4. It’s not working: try something new or persist?
Persist, its hard for me to give up on ideas. Even bad ones.
#6. When does a piece fail? When does a piece succeed?
It fails when you have said nothing, though saying nothing intentionally says a lot. Redoing what has already been done is very banal for everyone. Its a win when you have expressed your hearts intention and it makes others think of inspired new concepts.
#7. Pasta or sushi?
Pasta! I like sushi but its always leaves me hungry and broke.
#8. You can bring one thing with you when you go (interpret that how you will), it must be inanimate. What is it?
Guitar. I defined my personality on that instrument and its brought me a lot of good.
#12. You own a store that only sells one type of object. What is it?
Weird sculptures.
#13. What famous artwork do you like least of all?
I really despise Alex Grey.
#18. Who would you like to see but not speak to?
Debussy.
#21. What is your favourite plant?
The cycad. A primitive fern. A real dinosaur
#22. What is your favourite type of bread?
Rosemary French.
#23. What object or tool is perfect?
I watched a primitive technology show on youtube and this person cast clay pots out of mud. I think the pot is the perfect tool.
*I’m sending 23 questions to artists, designers and musicians and asking them to answer 11. I think these questions give revealing answers, especially regarding creative work. Here are their responses. As these are interviews I’m publishing their answers as they are, fully appreciating that English may not be their first or preferred written language. Thanks to all the participants.
11/1: Kuh Del Rosario
11/1*, Vol.11: Kuh Del Rosario
#1. Twelve hours of the perfect day or twelve hours of the perfect night?
Have you had many lucid dreams? Time gets away from you and though you are in control of your surroundings, everything is fluid; the more you grasp the quicker things can dissolve in your grasp. The perfect night would be 12 hours of sustained lucid dreaming. It’s the ultimate ayahuasca.
#2. What is always worth the price?
Everything under the sun has value but I can’t think of a single object that is always worth its price. Price most often can never match value.
#3. You have unlimited space and unlimited resources. What will you make?
With unlimited resources, I would create a submarine encrusted with found/discarded objects from alleyways and free piles, encrusted with diamonds made from human remains from unmarked graves. The vessel will be the largest submarine to ever be submerged in the open seas and employs all the leading marine biologists, scientists and engineers. It would be the first to explore the deepest of oceans. Once the center of the earth is found, the submarine would shed its beautiful scales made of diamonds, to line center earth. The submarine would stay for one season and on the last day, the crew would conduct a parting ceremony for all the poor souls who are now occupying the core of everything we know.
#4. Its not working: try something new or persist?
Persist 50 times maximum, using 8 different methods and repeating each method 6 times. The first and last try can be executed as you see fit. If, after the 50th attempt, it still fails move on to something new. This method does not apply to matters of the heart.
#5. In general; start from chaos and reduce or start from silence and add?
In my art making process, chaos always provides the seed or insight to a form. Chipping away from that is so enjoyable; like the satisfying act of peeling.
#6. When does a piece fail? When does a piece succeed?
A piece is most successful when my work reveals something new to me, or I have a feeling that I am looking at something that is outside of me. It fails when the work has no charm.
#7. Pasta or sushi?
Sushi.
#8. You can bring one thing with you when you go (interpret that how you will), it must be inanimate. What is it?
I am taking “go” to mean death, which may be interpreted to signify a cross over to another life. In which case, I will need my favourite pet rock I got from Sechelt. It is perfectly round to the naked eye with flecks of black, grey and white minerals. This rock can be used as a loofah, massage tool, calming agent, weapon, toy, inspiration, weight, door jam, etc. and will prove useful in any jam.
#12. You own a store that only sells one type of object. What is it?
Any objects that are naturally or synthetically colored green.
#13. What famous artwork do you like least of all?
If I am being extremely truthful – any paintings by Jackson Pollock except for the first and last one.
#16. What habit have you had the longest?
Self-deprecation.
*I’m sending 23 questions to artists, designers and musicians and asking them to answer 11. I think these questions give revealing answers, especially regarding creative work. Here are their responses. As these are interviews I’m publishing their answers as they are, fully appreciating that English may not be their first or preferred written language. Thanks to all the participants.
Kuh Del Rosario is an artist living in Vancouver, Canada.
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11/1*, Vol.11: Kuh Del Rosario
#1. Twelve hours of the perfect day or twelve hours of the perfect night?
Have you had many lucid dreams? Time gets away from you and though you are in control of your surroundings, everything is fluid; the more you grasp the quicker things can dissolve in your grasp. The perfect night would be 12 hours of sustained lucid dreaming. It’s the ultimate ayahuasca.
#2. What is always worth the price?
Everything under the sun has value but I can’t think of a single object that is always worth its price. Price most often can never match value.
#3. You have unlimited space and unlimited resources. What will you make?
With unlimited resources, I would create a submarine encrusted with found/discarded objects from alleyways and free piles, encrusted with diamonds made from human remains from unmarked graves. The vessel will be the largest submarine to ever be submerged in the open seas and employs all the leading marine biologists, scientists and engineers. It would be the first to explore the deepest of oceans. Once the center of the earth is found, the submarine would shed its beautiful scales made of diamonds, to line center earth. The submarine would stay for one season and on the last day, the crew would conduct a parting ceremony for all the poor souls who are now occupying the core of everything we know.
#4. Its not working: try something new or persist?
Persist 50 times maximum, using 8 different methods and repeating each method 6 times. The first and last try can be executed as you see fit. If, after the 50th attempt, it still fails move on to something new. This method does not apply to matters of the heart.
#5. In general; start from chaos and reduce or start from silence and add?
In my art making process, chaos always provides the seed or insight to a form. Chipping away from that is so enjoyable; like the satisfying act of peeling.
#6. When does a piece fail? When does a piece succeed?
A piece is most successful when my work reveals something new to me, or I have a feeling that I am looking at something that is outside of me. It fails when the work has no charm.
#7. Pasta or sushi?
Sushi.
#8. You can bring one thing with you when you go (interpret that how you will), it must be inanimate. What is it?
I am taking “go” to mean death, which may be interpreted to signify a cross over to another life. In which case, I will need my favourite pet rock I got from Sechelt. It is perfectly round to the naked eye with flecks of black, grey and white minerals. This rock can be used as a loofah, massage tool, calming agent, weapon, toy, inspiration, weight, door jam, etc. and will prove useful in any jam.
#12. You own a store that only sells one type of object. What is it?
Any objects that are naturally or synthetically colored green.
#13. What famous artwork do you like least of all?
If I am being extremely truthful – any paintings by Jackson Pollock except for the first and last one.
#16. What habit have you had the longest?
Self-deprecation.
*I’m sending 23 questions to artists, designers and musicians and asking them to answer 11. I think these questions give revealing answers, especially regarding creative work. Here are their responses. As these are interviews I’m publishing their answers as they are, fully appreciating that English may not be their first or preferred written language. Thanks to all the participants.
11/1: Elizabeth Zvonar
11/1*, Vol.10: Elizabeth Zvonar
Elizabeth Zvonar is an artist living in Vancouver, Canada.
#1. Twelve hours of the perfect day or twelve hours of the perfect night?
Twelve hours of the perfect day.
#2. What is always worth the price?
Well made products.
#4. Its not working: try something new or persist?
Persist until it’s new.
#7. Pasta or sushi?
Sushi.
#8. You can bring one thing with you when you go (interpret that how you will), it must be inanimate. What is it?
A crystal.
#9. What two things must be together to satisfy you?
Intellect and humour.
#10. What is your favourite machine?
The coffee grinder.
#11. What incredibly useful thing doesn’t exist yet?
A wealth of humanity that productively exists outside of and beyond the need for monetary wealth.
#13. What famous artwork do you like least of all?
Robert Morris’ Box with the Sound of it’s Own Making from 1961 because its annoying and begins this slightly smarmy path that institutional education points to as important. Anything deemed academy important by Carl Andre as history has revealed his complicated biography. This mute collusion of powers that record keep create an untarnished or unspoilt historical lineage/trajectory of history, highlighting how damaging it is to edit our collective history.
#14. What work of yours is the favourite?
Fingerfucking or The Smile, they tie. Object of Contemplation.
#17. What about yourself can you not trust?
To resist my desire or habits.
#20. You can spend an hour any place and at any time. Where and when?
The beach for a swim in beautiful weather. An art gallery or anthropology museum on an rainy afternoon.
#22. What is your favourite type of bread?
Fresh roti. Fresh naan. Fresh sourdough.
#23. What object or tool is perfect?
The knife in general. Ceramic tools including boxwood, fettling knife, wooden rib and toggle wire.
*I’m sending 23 questions to artists, designers and musicians and asking them to answer 11. I think these questions give revealing answers, especially regarding creative work. Here are their responses. As these are interviews I’m publishing their answers as they are, fully appreciating that English may not be their first or preferred written language. Thanks to all the participants.
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