Asking the right questions

In thesis class today, Ted Purves gave us the following assignment: Write 15-20 sentences which, when taken as a whole, circumscribe a space that your 'work' occupies. Which constellation of questions is your work the answer to? Think about your work in a larger, aesthetic sense, rather than in terms of specifics.

Here are my questions.

1. Why is the research process necessary in order for the work to feel meaningful?
2. Why is it important to create something out of nothing?
3. Why do I make work I cant necessarily explain or justify?
4. When is it important to be caught up in the emotional and physical 'ness' of the work?
5. How can I set up moments that deviate from the expected?
6. How will I convince the viewer into believing what I tell them is true?
7. How do I close the gap between coincidence and intention?
8. How can I work things out and still leave them open-ended?
9. How can I display phenomenological information without seeming hokey?
10. How can I most effectively reach people?
11. How can I manipulate the excitement of a stranger?
12. How can I highlight the mundane aspects of life vs. the most explosive?
13. How do I expect to have intimate conversations without sharing in that?
14. What is a girl version of an alien abduction?
15. What gets the clearest ideas across?
16. How can I turn conversation into medium?
17. How can I bring voices forward?
18. How can I give permission to people to say what wouldn't otherwise be said?
19. How can I create a relationship, stimulate dialog and still maintain a respectful level of distance?
20. How do I make clearer what my role is in this work?
21. How do I artistically project into a public space?
22. What is the difference between a conversation and an interview?
23. How does the conversation translate afterwards into a tangible thought, idea or image?
24. How can I make the ineffable visible?