Just forget what it's called.
An Automatic Non-Interview with Jeremy Tucker
A collaborative non-interview of sorts where I ask a random series of questions (loosely related to ‘creative voice’) while the non-interviewee is distractedly drawing without looking. Then the responses get reduced to a poem. Read more about the inspiration here. (tl;dr: Stay open to chance.)
The Full Non-Interview
Who are you? Jeremy Tucker.
What makes life worth living? Fluidity.
How do you define success? I mean, I usually don't. I don't think it's definable. But I guess if the question is, how do I, Jeremy, define success for me? I'm so conscious of my hand making art right now. I'm not looking, but I'm cognizant of it. Success would be, oh gosh, letting go.
What lesson has your work taught you? It's all going to be OK. I'm feeling weirdly empowered to be incredibly short and simple. I don't know why. I'm typically not. So that's a learning. That's an observation.
What question do you like asking people? What are you most excited about?
What are you most excited about? Building work things.
If you were a color? Black.
A quality you admire. Confidence.
What do you collect? Money.
A moment that moved you deeply. Coming out of the sewer tube in Shawshank redemption.
A favorite childhood memory. Taking my brand new BMX bike into the park.
What do you know now that you did not know? That I know very little.
What do you miss most? There's a child having tantrums and that's what I miss the most. The freedom to just express all of my emotions and then go home, get fed by my mother, and go to sleep, and wake up.
Why? Why my answer to that last question? Or why? Why is the universe? And you're if it's purely up to me I'd say why is the universe? And the answer is there is no reason. There is no why.
An incredible bookstore. Oh the place you showed me—that's still my favorite in New York…I just forget what it's called. McNally at the sea port? McNally. Yep.
Three words to describe what ‘very you’ is like. Tall. Dramatic. Rational.
Something you've created that you love. This business.
Your biggest influence. Fear.
Why? There is no why.
Why? That's awesome. That's so funny. There is no why. I'm sticking to it. There is no why.