5 Questions

Each year, I send five questions into the ether to see what comes back.

The answers become a living archive of how artists, thinkers, makers, organizers, wanderers, and curious humans are navigating their creative lives at this particular moment in time. Together they form a time capsule of the ideas, practices, uncertainties, obsessions, and discoveries that sustain us.

This is the third year of the Station 5 Five Questions project, and I’d love for you to be part of it.

There are several ways to participate:

• Write your responses and send them to me.
• Fill out the form below.
• Record an audio or video response.
• Answer the questions over email or text.

Prefer conversation to writing? So do I: Meet me for coffee, tea, a walk, or a Zoom conversation, and I’ll interview you. I’ll transcribe and lightly edit our conversation, then send it back to you for review and approval before it’s published.

However you choose to participate, the goal is the same: to pause for a dang moment and leave behind a small record of where your creative life is.

Don’t sweat it! Spend 20 seconds or 20 hours. Answer with a manifesto, a haiku, a single sentence, one word, a sketch, a voice memo, a list, a poem, a contradiction, or glorious sarcasm. Be earnest or be absurd. Don’t second-guess or polish your responses…your first instincts are often the most spot-on. However you choose to respond is exactly enough.