From the perspective of interviewing

Before I knew it, more than a few years had passed since I started conducting interviews and writing articles.

The " Dialogue " page, which features interviews with people who have held exhibitions, has more than 30 articles, and articles by Fukumura and Uranino were published last week.

I am writing this blog post while I am in the midst of editing the interview with sardexka.

With each interview like this, my values, which are filled with worldly desires, gradually begin to change.

Every time I visit the workshops, interview people and see up close the process of how their works are made, and get a glimpse of life in the area, I feel like there is no greater luxury than this.

At the same time, to put it dramatically, it's a battle with pressure, wondering if I can put this process together in writing each time.

There are countless issues to consider when interviewing people. If you are meeting people for the first time and are extremely nervous and shy, your nervousness will be conveyed to the other person.

There are many things to consider, such as behavior and the flow of the interview.

I do feel it's a bit presumptuous to try to convey the conflict and process in a few words, but I wondered if I could convey the emotions I felt with enough passion in an article.

I think that's the question that gets asked every time.

The general process of writing an article based on the content of an interview involves transcribing the information, reading it over and over again, and putting together a structure.

Each time we work with the writers, we have no prior meetings or scripts, so we are required to improvise.

When I read over the transcribed interview material without knowing what the final result will be, I find that there are repeated words in the conversation.

For Fukumura, who we interviewed this time, the keyword was "challenge," while for others it was the word "life."

The subconscious mind is expressed in actions, and from those actions words naturally flow.

I am often moved when such natural, unintended words emerge by chance during editing.

The words of someone who has dedicated themselves to creating something convey their aesthetic sense and beliefs in every detail.

This feeling spreads to those who read it and gives them daily sustenance. I would like to continue reporting with this feeling in mind.

We have many updates planned for March. We will be publishing an interview article about Miho Ota's new album "Kiki" and an article about the "Emiowasu Exhibition" which starts on the 20th.

This week we will be covering Ibitsu in Sendai, Tohoku, where the event will be held in April, and we will continue to work hard every day to ensure that we can deliver the information we have to everyone.

We hope you look forward to all of these, along with the interview footage that will be updated on Utsushiki's YouTube channel .

Let's have a lot of learning this week too.

Yoshiaki Ono