2 posts tagged “10 questions”

Northampton, Mass.-based artist and graphic designer Marisa Filippone recently opened Dandie in the Underworld, a small boutique and art space featuring recycled goods. She is a true gem: I adore her musings at bikes and birds, long to own one of her paintings, and think she has excellent taste in music.

1Q: What is your favorite word?
MF: I’ve always loved the word, nonchalant. I guess for what it means and how it sounds.

2Q: What is your least favorite word?
MF: Wicked! It’s just one of those new england slang words that I really dislike.

3Q: What turns you on creatively, spiritually, or emotionally?
MF: Tag sales, flea markets, vintage shopping, farmers markets, sunny days, flowers, animals, laughter.

4Q: What turns you off?
MF: Negativity, complaining, and laziness.

5Q: What sound or noise do you love?
MF: Birds singing, my cats purring and meowing, brian playing drums

6Q: What sound or noise do you hate?
MF: Anything sudden. I startle very easily.

7Q: What is your favorite curse word?
MF: Fuckhead is a good one.

8Q: What profession, other than your own, would you like to attempt?
MF: A food critic.

9Q: What profession would you not like to attempt?
MF: An actress.

10Q: If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the pearly gates?
MF: Welcome to the party, we’ve been waiting for you!

Lambertville, NJ-based Todd Baldwin is an artist, preparator, exhibition designer, curator, and teacher. (He's also my husband). Ten of his newest photomontages can be seen in the New Jersey Voices I exhibit at the Montgomery Center for the Arts (June 29 - July 29).

1Q: What is your favorite word?
TB: Kimberly. I just like saying it. I like the imagery I have associated with it.

2Q: What is your least favorite word?
TB: Anxiety. It's difficult to deal with.

3Q: What turns you on creatively, spiritually, or emotionally?
TB: (laughs) You do, Kimberly. (laughs again) You don't like that answer, do you?

4Q: What turns you off?
TB: Bad art. (pauses) Maybe not. Maybe rude people.

5Q: What sound or noise do you love?
TB: (laughs) Are you really writing down every word I say? I love the sound of Storey laughing.

6Q: What sound or noise do you hate?
TB: You or Storey crying ... that painful, I'm hurt cry. That and screeching cars.

7Q: What is your favorite curse word?
TB: Fuck, shit, bitch, cock, balls -- said all together like that and in that specific order.

8Q: What profession, other than your own, would you like to attempt?
TB: There are so many. Truck driver. Rigger. Painter.

9Q: What profession would you not like to attempt?
TB: Window washer. I am afraid of heights.

10Q: If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the pearly gates?
TB: Two olives or three for your martini, Mr. Baldwin?