Interview notes 10 (January 2023)

Interview notes (January 2023)

Online community

Interview notes 10 (January 2023)

"I’ve noticed in my time following you that you’ve cultivated a very lovely online community that stays in touch through twitter posts and threads . Do you feel you’ve found people on twitter that you would genuinely call friends? Or do you more see them as followers."

I have met a small group of people — say, twenty — with whom I feel a connection, a real human connection. I have met none of them in real life, and don't suppose I will. But they are important to me.

When I reached a thousand followers, I made a promise to these Twitter friends, that they would always be special to me when I had five thousand follower, or ten thousand, or a hundred thousand. (This is not hypothetical: these are my goals.) By a thousand followers it was obvious that more followers meant less personal attention. My promise is to not forget the first thousand: to always hold them close, is special regard, no matter how many others come along.

That said, I do want followers, as many as possible. What artist does not want an audience for their work?