| A Pension for Ponytails - Interview with KK - by Sunday Smith & Jess Emmons |
| SS: When you embroider do you use hand stichery or do you prefer machine work? If hand, have you any problems with arthritis? I heard you have stiff knees, it is true that if you have arthritis in your knees it will spread to your digits? Also, I noticed a pre-occupation with skulls. Are you referring to skeletons put only in the cerebrum like form? Also, have you seen the ghost of John? KK: Hand jobs are the only way I go. 'Manual minus the manual' is my motto, the way I do things. As for the arthritis, you are the only Gay I allow to touch my body. SS: It is rumored that for inspiration you spent many nights in the Berlin cemetery with occasional post-mortem visits from Atco Al... please dispute. Also, would you prefer to stitch on towels or mink stoles? How do you feel about knitting and macram�? KK: Too many questions at once, can you please try not to be so verbose? Thank you [lets out a loud, audible sigh]. Look, the cemetery thing, I told you in our last interview that this was just a re-enactment of MJ's "Thriller" video for a college art project. I was merely trying to assist the Rocky Horror Picture Show club in purifying character relations via DV camera. Knitting and macram�, for the record, is pass�. Besides, there is a reason I'm moving to the west coast, right? SS: What is the average time it takes for you to create a stitched piece of art? Would you label it as art? Do you wear eyepieces to stitch? Last time we interviewed in 2001, you were wearing an eye-patch? Was this for fashion purposes or is it indeed true you are legally blind in both eyes? If so, that would be amazing you can stitch. If not, perhaps I have you confused with Lid-less Larry. Is it true you stitched Lid-less Larry's eyes shut when you accused him of replicating you first art/stitched piece entitled "Run-away Reindeer Run-Away...Wait You Forgot your hoove?" How long was that piece in the LLeuve in France? KK: Are you serious? You've got some nerve....I am a Pisces, yes, and I like ponies.. Hence the eye patch. Nothing more. I also like ponytails. I only stitched Lid-less because he asked me to. He's a bit of a perv. SS: I hear you will be moving to Arizona, how will this sit with your co-horts as they try to make Was'af grow on its own? KK: It doesn't really matter, as space is relative, no? At least in this business. Nothing will change, the world is much to small now. I have no idea what my co-horts even look like, outside what precedes the @ sign. Perhaps there is something to be said, however, about missing the CHOICE of tangible interaction. We will see. SS: Also, last time we interviewed, not only did you wear the eye-patch but you were listening to the late Sonora Pine as you sipped a Grey Goose and Hawaiian Punch. How has Sonora Pine affected your works? Also, is it true you dated the Eli from Girls against Boys? KK: Sonora Pine and spiked punch are indicative of pigmented memories, existing in instances of recollections, as is occurring right now, but are very dead in the literal sense. Music affects my work only in the sense that it distracts me from remembering the goal. Or the goalie. Or much of anything, for that matter. I am not ambidextrous. I can only do one thing at one time. And with one hand. SS: What are you words of stupidity to all those who would not enjoy your site or your works? How many times have you been in love? KK: This is the only question in which I answer truthfully, because they pertain to my favorite topics: stupidity and love. Anyone who lacks the range of intelligence or interest to not enjoy this incredible site, this atypical interpretation of humor, I tell you this: You don't understand our art. For the most part, I assume these clueless bastards/bastardettes are people who find "the Scream" or "Starry Night" to epitomize Webster's literal meaning of "art." In my world and in my business, well, we don't believe in the defined. Everything is subjective, regardless of whether there is 1, 1a, 2b as a noun, used as a pronoun, verb, what have you? Do you follow? If not, it's because you're stupid. And as for love? Twice. Once with a man, and always with myself. [Jess steps in and clears her throat. Sunday starts slapping her kneecaps to the beat of "Throw Me in the River"].... |