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Dwayne Butcher: Artist Interview with Pinkney Herbert 8/1/06

DB: What are your methods of visualization? How does your creative
process begin?

PH: music, yoga, but a shot of tequila always helps

DB: What do you think of the current state of the Memphis art scene?

PH: Improving overall with a chance of thunderstorms.

DB: Inconjunction with the paintings, you make a lot of drawings. Do
you see the drawings as sketches for the larger works or are they
their own separate thing?

PH: The drawings stand alone like wallflowers.

DB: Explain your work in five words or less.

PH: Finger painting on steroids. [no urine tests in the art race]

DB:What is your favorite - movie? book? color? smell? food?

PH: movie - The Wizard of OZ
book - Mark Steven's Dekooning
color - black & white
smell - Billie Holiday's Gardenia
food - fried lemon grass tofu