vera khlebnikova (russia)

1. tell us about your everyday environment,
your hobbies and lifestyle

2. what do you see as the point of your works?

3. tell us your thoughts on the problems printmaking is facing today ? what might they be and where's the solution?

4. do you use computers in your work,
and if so, how do they help you and what do you think of them?

5. what do you think are the best and worst sides of print art?

6. what does printmaking give and mean to you?

7. where did you get the idea from to take part
in the tallinn print triennial?

8. your favourite artists?

1. my everyday environment is my computer. my hobby is novel-writing. my lifestyle is an attempt to combine book design, illustrations for children's books, printmaking and exhibition projects with reading e-mails and answering them.

2. love for everyday "dust", for histories of marginal destiny.

3. printmaking is not my only occupation and for myself i see in that the solution of problems.

4. oh yes, i use the computer. it helps me to achieve a balance between "life" and "art". what do i think of computers? i shall tell you what it (he) thinks of me: once i was writing a text in word and suddenly a little window with this yellow bulb appeared and the phrase: "checked skirts and striped pants do not suit everyone"… i was wearing my favourite checked skirt… artists, who use computers in printmaking, have incomparably much more problems, than artists who require for work only a pencil and a sheet of a paper.

7. from familiar artists - participants and organisers of the tallinn print triennial.

8. my favourite artists… probably - kurt schwitters and paul klee… and artists from my own family, of course.