fan letter to Fahey and her work here<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhat bothers you most about the world right now?<\/p>\n
Everything because we are oppressed by a brutal bourgeoisie who are inventing gods to serve their own purposes. Putting their ill-gotten gains into corporations. Corporations wallowing in stupidity and greed. Distracting us as they rob us blind. Distracting us with football, yacht races, bogus films, and painting empty of content. The Roman Empire distracted their rabble with feasts and circuses, nothing new here.<\/p>\n
What sort of people do you avoid?<\/p>\n
Anybody who looks away from Gaza.<\/p>\n
What makes you want to get up in the morning?<\/p>\n
Looking out the window to glimpse a bird, a dog, a cat going about their business in their innocence.<\/p>\n
How do you hold onto hope in these crazy times?<\/p>\n
Hope? I fear Voltaire\u2019s bridge over the abyss is already beyond repair.<\/p>\n
What is the single best quality a human can have?\u00a0<\/p>\n
Courage.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s over-rated?<\/p>\n
The electoral system, cupcakes, croissants and washing machines.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s under-rated?<\/p>\n
Tar\u0101punga red-billed gulls.<\/p>\n
If you could have a do-over, what would you change?<\/p>\n
Everything.<\/p>\n
What brings you joy?<\/p>\n
A demonstration of compassion.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s the best advice you\u2019ve ever been given?<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t listen to advice.<\/p>\n
What advice do you wish you\u2019d never followed?<\/p>\n
Where should I begin?<\/p>\n
Tell us about a controversial opinion you hold.<\/p>\n
It seems what I am is controversial.<\/p>\n
When you\u2019re feeling low, what helps?<\/p>\n
Painting until I couldn\u2019t, now poetry, writing and my familiar, Alvin, the cat.<\/p>\n
In what ways is public-facing Jacqueline different to private Jacqueline?<\/p>\n
My Great Aunt Mary Allen would constantly declare \u201cpretend nothing\u201d. But, I believe I always understood that without sincerity and truthfulness, a painting could not survive.<\/p>\n
Give us some life advice.<\/p>\n
My advice to students? Don\u2019t tell the painting let the painting tell you. Anybody involved in creativity discovers by constant practice their own answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The beloved painter, and subject of a new short documentary, gives her take on the state of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,245304,111,139,69,3074,1066,245305],"class_list":["post-489125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-jacquline-fahey","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-painting","tag-pop-culture","tag-rita-angus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}