JONAS RUCHENHEVER


Your favourite virtue ::
honesty, truthfulness, integrity

Your favourite qualities in a man ::
humility, compassion, integrity

Your favourite qualities in a woman ::
humility, compassion, integrity

Your favourite occupation ::
creating

Your idea of happiness ::
love

Your idea of misery ::
physical decay & suffering

If not yourself, who would you be ::
a better copy of myself, or a bird

Where would you like to live ::
by the sea (4 months/year), in the middle of nowhere (4 months/year) and where i currently live (4 months/year)

Your favourite colour and flower ::
i don't have a favourite colour, and every flower is beautiful

Your favourite prose authors ::
i don't have any favourite prose authors

Your favourite poets ::
Sylvia Plath, Bob Dylan, Lucebert, Paul Snoek

Your favourite heroes in fiction ::
underdogs

Your favourite heroines in fiction ::
undercats

Your favourite painters and composers ::
Michaël Borremans, Antoni Tàpies, Egon Schiele, Giorgio Morandi, Robert Motherwell, Goran Djurovic, Mark Rothko, Jean Dubuffet, Jan Van Imschoot, and countless others, Eliane Radigue, Gustav Mahler, John Cage, Neil Young, Tomas Köner, Djivan Gasparyan, Frank Zappa, Gavin Bryars, John Coltrane, Terry Riley and countless others

Your favourite heroes in real life ::
my sons

Your favourite heroines in real life ::
my wife and daughter

What character(s) in history do you most dislike ::
Hernando Cortez and the likes

Your favourite food and drink ::
i have no idea

Your favourite names ::
my children's names

Your pet peeve (something that easily annoys you)::
hypocrisy, greed, intolerance

The change you most anticipate ::
i try hard not to anticipate anything

A gift of nature which you would like to have ::
i'd like to be able to fly

How you would like to die ::
peacefully

What is your present state of mind ::
restless

Of what fault are you most tolerant ::
the faults of the ones i love

Your favourite motto ::
nobody's master, nobody's slave

13 avril 2012

Jonas Ruchenhever is a self-taught experimental artist from Belgium.

website :: Jonas Ruchenhever

:: the questionnaire is based on the original "questionnaire of Marcel Proust", created by Antoinette Faure around 1890.