briefly reviving this journal for meme-related purposes
meme and questions from rightkindofme
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me" or something of an equally pithy nature.
2. I will respond by asking you 5 questions of a very personal nature. Be warned!
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions, or there will be trouble.
4. You will include this and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them 5 questions.
I will promise questions to the first 5 people; after that, it will depend on my interest/energy/etc. I will also promise answers to the first five people who want to ask me questions.
1. Do you believe that your art is something that you do for you or something that you do for the world?
it's hard to separate the two. i used to get more upset about the idea that no one would ever see my work, and feel unmotivated because of that, but recently creative stuff has been more of a spiritual practice for me, and i'm sort of fine with the fact that a lot of it ends up stuffed in a drawer somewhere. I do think that the best art is made by people doing exactly what they feel like doing without thinking too much of others, so ironically my art is probably more useful to others now that i'm not thinking about them so much. i would like to show more, because i feel that on most levels, no art is doing the world much good if hardly anybody sees it.
2. If you had to choose between living in one city (not necessarily the city you live in now) and never being able to travel again or traveling for the rest of your life without staying in one place longer than a month, which would you choose? If you pick one city--which one?
assuming that family would come visit us, i think i have to pick stay in one place. i am really hoping to have more of a sense of community and a connection to a certain piece of land some day. and which place? i don't know, and that's kind of why i'm still here in pittsburgh. other possibilities that come to mind are eugene, oregon, and twin oaks commune in virginia (not exactly a city, but i think i'd rather not live in an actual city permanently). i would go a little crazy from not traveling, though.
3. If River decided to rebel against you, what could he do that you would dislike the most?
i didn't have a good answer to this question until a couple of days ago. even if river becomes a venture capitalist, joins the army, plays football, or gets religion, i assume i'll be able to find some way to have a positive connection with him. then, the other day a mom i know told me that the only thing her son wants for his third birthday is a party with no "girls", including her, and i realized that if river ever goes through a phase like that i will have a really tough time not totally flipping my shit. it's an incredibly loaded subject for me, particularly if such an attitude should persist past the preschool years. i know, it could totally happen...
4. Why do you feel guilty about not blogging more?
because while i feel pretty good about being a mother, partner, occasional breadwinner and person who even cleans my house occasionally, i really feel like i need to be doing more, and i very often don't. blogging is kind of a little thing, but i think that good blogs make the world a slightly brighter and more interesting place, and honestly it's about the biggest additional project i feel i can take on right now. also, i don't really have close friends who i interact with more in real life than on the internet, so keeping up with writing and reading blogs helps me feel like i have a social life at all. i'm not sure i feel guilty when this doesn't happen so much as just lame.
5. What do you wish you could change about your living space?
well, the thing that came to mind immediately is we have no personal space, so it would be really nice to have a small work room/spare room that it would be possible to hide in occasionally to use a computer, draw, take a nap or whatever without assistance from river. more than that, though, it would be nice to have a big yard (we have none), especially one that bordered on a wilderness area. that's one of my major dreams for future living situations, although i assume that we will also have at least a few separate rooms.
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me" or something of an equally pithy nature.
2. I will respond by asking you 5 questions of a very personal nature. Be warned!
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions, or there will be trouble.
4. You will include this and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them 5 questions.
I will promise questions to the first 5 people; after that, it will depend on my interest/energy/etc. I will also promise answers to the first five people who want to ask me questions.
1. Do you believe that your art is something that you do for you or something that you do for the world?
it's hard to separate the two. i used to get more upset about the idea that no one would ever see my work, and feel unmotivated because of that, but recently creative stuff has been more of a spiritual practice for me, and i'm sort of fine with the fact that a lot of it ends up stuffed in a drawer somewhere. I do think that the best art is made by people doing exactly what they feel like doing without thinking too much of others, so ironically my art is probably more useful to others now that i'm not thinking about them so much. i would like to show more, because i feel that on most levels, no art is doing the world much good if hardly anybody sees it.
2. If you had to choose between living in one city (not necessarily the city you live in now) and never being able to travel again or traveling for the rest of your life without staying in one place longer than a month, which would you choose? If you pick one city--which one?
assuming that family would come visit us, i think i have to pick stay in one place. i am really hoping to have more of a sense of community and a connection to a certain piece of land some day. and which place? i don't know, and that's kind of why i'm still here in pittsburgh. other possibilities that come to mind are eugene, oregon, and twin oaks commune in virginia (not exactly a city, but i think i'd rather not live in an actual city permanently). i would go a little crazy from not traveling, though.
3. If River decided to rebel against you, what could he do that you would dislike the most?
i didn't have a good answer to this question until a couple of days ago. even if river becomes a venture capitalist, joins the army, plays football, or gets religion, i assume i'll be able to find some way to have a positive connection with him. then, the other day a mom i know told me that the only thing her son wants for his third birthday is a party with no "girls", including her, and i realized that if river ever goes through a phase like that i will have a really tough time not totally flipping my shit. it's an incredibly loaded subject for me, particularly if such an attitude should persist past the preschool years. i know, it could totally happen...
4. Why do you feel guilty about not blogging more?
because while i feel pretty good about being a mother, partner, occasional breadwinner and person who even cleans my house occasionally, i really feel like i need to be doing more, and i very often don't. blogging is kind of a little thing, but i think that good blogs make the world a slightly brighter and more interesting place, and honestly it's about the biggest additional project i feel i can take on right now. also, i don't really have close friends who i interact with more in real life than on the internet, so keeping up with writing and reading blogs helps me feel like i have a social life at all. i'm not sure i feel guilty when this doesn't happen so much as just lame.
5. What do you wish you could change about your living space?
well, the thing that came to mind immediately is we have no personal space, so it would be really nice to have a small work room/spare room that it would be possible to hide in occasionally to use a computer, draw, take a nap or whatever without assistance from river. more than that, though, it would be nice to have a big yard (we have none), especially one that bordered on a wilderness area. that's one of my major dreams for future living situations, although i assume that we will also have at least a few separate rooms.