QUESTIONS

In your opinion, what do you buy way more of than most people?

I don’t buy a lot due to having a tiny budget and I don’t know what “most people” buy. I suppose in proportion to my income I probably buy more dolls than most people.

Which workers have the worst jobs?

That’s a tough one too. There are a lot of horrible jobs. Anyone who works in the business of cleaning up after others has a horrible job and they get little pay and less respect for it. That’s probably not the worst job you could have though. I did it and enjoyed it mostly for many years, so did Naomi.

People who work in sweat shops making clothing for next to nothing in horrible conditions have terrible jobs. So do those who have to deal with the dead after a road accident or some other kind of tragedy. I take my hat off to them because often they choose to do that for a job.

Opinion.  John Cage is a composer who composed a piece named 4’33” for any instrument. The performance are instructed not to play their instrument for four minutes and thirty-three seconds. Is this music or is this art?  A combination of the two?   Neither, it’s stupid.  Your opinion?

I’ve never heard of him but no I don’t think it is music or art. I’m not sure what it is. I also don’t think that burying yourself in a hole in a busy road for a couple of days is art. That was done by a performer in a festival in Hobart a few years ago. I didn’t see the point of it. You couldn’t see him; it was disruptive to city traffic and certainly not art as I understand it.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-17/dark-mofo-artist-mike-parr-set-to-emerge-from-under-road/9878772

How good are you at drawing?

Terrible.

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GRATITUDE SECTION (as always optional)

Feel free to share one amazing thing you’ve experienced (any time frame).

I have written about this before but in 1990 David and I visited China and Russia travelling on the Trans Mongolian and Trans-Siberian Express trains. The whole experience was amazing but the standout moment for me was at the Great Wall of China. We went to Badaling on a bus tour with a small group of tourists and somehow on the walk I became separated from the others. Unknown to me they had returned to the bus after the first tower but I kept walking. I went as far as I could go and eventually the crowds of visitors thinned out and I was almost alone. It was a travel experience I’ll never forget. Below are photos I took that day.