crowtalk

* When did you first start doing your art?

* What inspires you – images, other art, nature, the spiritual, emotions, experiences, places, forms, shapes, patterns, people, memories, dreams, ideas/concepts, relationships, random events? Or do you have inspiration that seems to come from nowhere?

* What happens when you feel you’ve lost inspiration? Do you keep going?

* Do you always need inspiration? Or is it sometimes just a need to create?

* How important is craft vs. inspiration?

* How important is the physical act of making your art?

* How to you relate to the tools of your craft?

* Do you respond to/are you stimulated by the medium itself?

* How often to you reuse, redo, edit? Does that part feel creative to you?

* Do you start from character, place, story, words?

* Do you think about your audience as you create?

* How does your art express what is sensory? Is that important to you?

* How do you find the creative flow? Or do you just not worry about it? Do you require flow to create?

* Does the world seem to fall away when you create?

* Is it mental, emotional or both?

* How important is play? Humor? Chaos?

* How important is form? Structure? Craft?

* How does it help or hinder when your piece goes in a completely different direction?

* Are you open to the final result? Do you sometimes create without a goal or inspiration? Without knowing what you want or what you’ll get? Or is it better to have a plan, a sketch, a story board, a draft?

* What other art forms to you create in? Do you try different techniques within your art form? Do you get the same kind of satisfaction?

* What artists’ work to you admire/aspire?

* Do you sometimes feel there’s not enough time for your art?

* Do you risk?

* How much is the product of your work, your finished product, part of who you are?

* How do you know when it’s finished?