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We thought hard about being a @moxie.eth Hero this week and how we'll celebrate that. 

Introducing Pkok Finterviews - Cast-form farcaster interviews, 20 questions to some of our favorite people.

We aim to tell stories of phenomenal individuals shaping the art ecosystem on web3. It's also a great way for us and other heroes to get to know and engage with them. Oh! each interview starts with /degen love.

But wait, there's more! These Finterviews are not restricted to only those we tag. If you'd like to participate, just respond to the questions and join the party, everybody is invited to be a part of these Finterviews. Tell us more about yourself, read other people's stories and hopefully we all get to know each other better by the end.

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Everyone is welcome to our Finterview. If you want to participate, let's start with this one...

What does the term “masterpiece” mean to you?

I’m not a fan of the term. Mostly because of the way it implies power over. But mastery, as I understand it in this context, involves intimacy and listening… to the materials, techniques, context, content. All work is collaboration. A piece of mastery, in my book, requires a virtuosity of vulnerability such that the artist reveals something of the art just as the art reveals something of the artist. They are changed by each other and responsive to each other.

Techno-animist, Hairy Witch, Shape-shifting Anthropomorphite (Human Passing), World Maker, NFT creator, parent, retired performance artist and clown.

Nicely said about the interplay between art and artist! Welcome to Pkok Finterview, Squishna! How would you describe your artistic style to someone unfamiliar with your work?

Thank you.
I would say that I create worlds, in collaboration with AI tools, where the human and more-than-human weave playfully - seeking to bring attention to the tenderness, playfulness, and beauty of life, death, and everything in between. I aspire towards vivid and dynamic images that queer expectations. I revel in bodies and celebrate pleasure, seeking to praise the sensate world  through offerings of images.

I also have a pre-pandemic lifetime of with as a contemporary dance choreographer and performance artist.

I was kind of born into it. My parents were dancers in the NYC post-modern dance scene. My dad danced and sang with Meredith Monk and my mom worked with a woman named Kei Ta Kei … slow motion walks across the Brooklyn Bridge and durational performances. Before I was born they started a children’s theater company together in Boston. I grew up with amazing troll costumes in the attic that my mom had made… with long stuffed tails and built in silicon ears and noses. Puppets from their shows were a big part of their parenting style. Did my first musical in 3rd grade and then it was a long woven arc through acting to dance, clowning, performance art, butoh, contact improv, site specific dance, various somatics, and community based performance projects. Only since pandemic and having family has my love of image and composition found a new home in collaboration with AI. Performance is too time and resource intensive to balance with supporting a family in this stage. I’m grateful to have another outlet.

What initially drew you to art, and how did your journey as an artist begin?