(A text composed of questions asked to those whom we have found influential to our studies
N.B. For those without wingdings question 7 was alternatively interpreted)
RUPERT NORFOLK:
1. What is the nearest object to you?
My spectacles.
2. Where do you draw the line?
I don't know
3. How do you know when you've crossed the line?
I don't know
4. Is it harder to do less?
Sometimes
5. What is curiosity?
Not Knowing.
6. Who do you make work for?
I make work to discover how something I can half imagine might materialise.
7.← or → , ↑ or ↓ ?
Onwards
8. What should an artwork do?
I don't think an artwork is obliged to do anything. An experimental engagement with the world perhaps.
9. Does your work ASK or ANSWER questions?
Neither
10. "purposefully purposeless"?
No
11. Why make Art?
It's human and marvelous.
12. How do you find out what you don't know?
I don't know
13. Do you have a role as an artist?
I don't know
14. What sustains your practice?
Curiosity
15. How are you doing?
I'm very well