What makes the stars shine?
I can’t hear you, are you saying “I love you?”
Q&A Session with Anna Binkele (age 8), Mary Ellen Binkele, and Michelle Tennison (2010)
Month: January 2017
Automatic Writing and Games of Chance
Playful procedures and systematic stratagems [provide] keys to unlock the door to the unconscious and to release the visual and verbal poetry of collective creativity.
— Mel Gooding, Intro to Surrealist Games, 1993
Through its inherent time-lapse and random nature, The Question and Answer Game creates an opening, a pregnant pause between question and answer. This pause, and the element of chance, are the keys to its inventiveness. Previously unrecognized thoughts are given an opportunity to jump in.
What’s beyond the threshold?
Mozart’s Mass in C Minor
Question Mark Harris, Answer Michelle Tennison (2016)
What is the best way to spot a fairy?
Leaves blowing in the same direction as the rain
Q&A Session with Mary Ellen Binkele and Michelle Tennison
When I ask him these questions and he answers, I haven’t got the faintest idea what he’s going to say, and what he says astounds me with his wisdom. It is so much more than I know.
–Edgar Bergen, ventriloquist
How far out do I go?
A notation written under a postage stamp
Question Michelle Tennison, Answer Paul Miller (2014)
What is knowing?
spinning door, half-light
winter afternoon
Question Harry Hudson, Answer Michelle Tennison (2004)
