What is your favorite word?
Ambivalence, melancholy, entropy, pisces. A sentence with all four: “The ambivalence of melancholy grows, as does the entropy of the universe that inhabits Pisces.”
Relate a recent dream that you remember.
I don't dream to remember my dreams, because I live them. Every night I have lucid dreams. The last one I remember, I owned a buffet café in Adelaide. We served breakfast, because breakfast food is the best there is, even though I rarely eat anything before 2 pm. The decor was beautiful, blue velvet and gray accents. It even had a koi fish pond. So now I'm turning it over in my mind from that day, because I realized that I would really be happy having a coffee shop or a restaurant. Maybe one day I'll make it something tangible.
What song would you like to have played at your funeral?
I could make a playlist for my funeral if I'm honest. Do I have to choose just one? There are too many songs that have impacted me on a great level throughout my life. Vaguely answering, I could say one by Arcade Fire, specifically, Wake Up. Quite a roller coaster of emotions that song, isn't it? Pretty much like my life. A shorter answer: Sparks by Coldplay. True Love Waits by Radiohead. Hannah Hunt by Vampire Weekend. Soul Meets Body by Death Cab for Cutie.
What is your definition of «art»?
The best way to cope with any kind of grief, or life itself. See also: Any phase of love. Exposure, climax, resolution.
What would be your ideal project or collaboration?
I would like to find a way to incorporate any aspect of creative literature into fashion. Collaborate on or make a film script. Act in front of a camera or in front of an audience. Finish writing a book. Appear in Button Poetry. Haruki Murakami, Virgil Abloh or Savannah Brown might be involved somewhere. Or, I'd just like to be able to sit down with Charlie Kaufman, chat, and subsequently broadcast how it is that his mind works when it comes to writing.
What is the best advice anyone has ever given you?
“Problems are just opportunities that have not yet presented themselves.” Thank you, Kingpin.
If you could change anything in the world, what would you change?
Any kind of injustice. I would remove taboos of things that should be discussed. People who are closed-minded, and refuse to change learned behaviors that may harm others in any way, or are self-harming. To people who for one reason or another refuse to express their emotions, their true feelings. Or simply people who deny the existence of the Oxford comma.
A pig comes into your room with a box in his hand. What is the first thing he says to you and why is he in your room?
He found my little box of favorite teas. He asks me which one I recommend, and which one I want, so that I can prepare them. So, we both poured ginger tea with lemon. He wanted to talk to me, because he can't sleep. It turns out that he is nice and asks me how much overthinking is considered too much. I didn't know how to answer him, but the tea was delicious.
What is your favorite time of the day?
I don't have a fixed one, it always changes. For now, it's the night, when I start writing. I still thoroughly enjoy it when I get my first genuine smile of the day.
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