Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Questa is an artist based in Tokyo who conducts live performance paintings using fluorescent paint under blacklight. Excerpts from an interview with Questa earlier this year…
Q: Is there a reason you prefer fluorescent paints?
Energy is closely related to light, specifically the light that comes from the sun. I want people to get their feelings and [...]
“Maybe it’s about mapping or tracing the ghost of cities past. It’s the pulling off of a layer and finding another underneath. It’s the reference and the details that point to people saying, ‘We exist; we were here.’”
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“I have a labor-intense practice- cutting and cutting, which is grunt work, almost mechanical. That’s foreground. But what’s [...]