prompts for feeling loudly





All Prompts (so far):

  • Through which sensory medium do you feel the loudest?
  • You have 500 characters (spaces included).
  • At what pace would you dig your own grave?
  • Audre Lorde famously described herself as a "Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet." In one or more words, what is your artist title?
  • When was the first time you confronted your own mortality?
  • What's your favorite cloud?
  • At what point(s) in your life did you feel like you were in a creative dead zone?
  • What would you do if your dog could talk?
  • When was the first time you felt authentic love towards someone?
  • Who do you wish you had said "I love you" to?
  • What would "completely starting over" look like in this exact moment?
  • What's the last thing you created?
  • Do you believe in God?
  • Do you believe in ghosts?
  • Who are you doing it versus?
  • Why now? (alt: why not now?)
  • Describe first-day-of-school energy. What else has first-day-of-school energy?
  • What's the most important piece of furniture in your home?
  • Have you ever seen a UFO?
  • What is the difference between Art and art?
  • What does new music sound like?
  • When have you transcended your medium?
  • Draw it.
  • When do you fight / yell / cry / cringe?
  • Who was the first person you'll never forget?
  • Why did you stop?
  • Close your eyes for 20 seconds (30, 60, 100, etc.).
  • Do you follow the rules?
  • Build something.
  • How many total pages have you written in your entire life? Which pages are your best?
  • Have you ever had a premonition come true?
  • What's the most magical thing you've seen in real life?
  • What things are you totally fine with never doing before you die? (i.e., the anti-bucket list)
  • Why shouldn't the inmates run the asylum?
  • What's your ultimate question?
  • What was one song (or more) that changed what you thought music could sound like?
  • What would you heist?
  • Are you an afraid person?
  • Do you want to have a sleepover?
  • Draw a color (not in the color). Can a friend guess the color?
  • Name all the elements (must be more than four).
  • Eat vs. pray vs. love.
  • How much time is left?
  • Have you unpacked all your moving boxes?
  • What haven't you made?
  • What about that (this, it, etc.) is meaningful to you?
  • What is the resonant frequency of "the room"?
  • Have you ever been the crazy thing someone else has seen or heard?
  • What job would you be worst at?
  • Where did you spend your "formative years"?
  • Imagine that society is collapsing and all our data crashes/becomes technologically inaccessible. What do we carve into stone (like hieroglyphics on an ancient obelisk) to preserve our society and send a message to future civilizations?
  • Are we in love now?
  • Think about your recent art/media consumption. Is there a through-line that thematically connects them all? What might this mean for you?
  • Who is the current "Emperor of Earth" (could maybe be someone no longer alive/in power)? Collapse history down from a macro level...who were the past "Emperors of Earth"? At what point will we no longer have an "Emperor of Earth"?
  • What were you most terrified of (rationally or irrationally) at different stages in your life?
  • What name would you choose?
  • Is there a project you're working on?
  • Is there a project I can help you with?
  • What makes you confront yourself? What do you find there?