a conversation with sara blicavs

an opal

i was nineteen when i first started an interview series. i knew i wanted a written and visual component, but with no access to the resources needed for a podcast i organised to work with other emerging artists for free. i recorded the audio of the interview on my phone, typed out each sentence into a transcript, and accompanied the text with the work of a photographer. i was part of the shoot. i wanted every project to be a unique collaboration: between interviewer and interviewee, layered with both of us as subjects of the photographer.

the plan was to approach any famous person, starting with the ones i knew, and ask them the same set of questions. the entire set, around thirty, was an excuse to ask one:

what do you do every single day to make the world better?

it was the only answer i was interested in. i cared generally about stories, about how someone is shaped into who they are, but they were the questions celebrities were always asked. i was drawn to dissecting harder. i wanted to know about accountability, vulnerability and empathy.

i conducted only three interviews. i released two. this was the debut, with sara blicavs, one of my first friends in the wnbl.