Welcome to the Bunker Questionnaire, a series in which we ask Bunker Projects residents and exhibiting artists a few questions based on Marcel Proust’s famous Proust Questionnaire, a survey that purported to reveal a person’s true nature. We hope their answers and the accompanying photos allow you to get to know them and their work a little bit more.
higu rose is a cartoonist, quilter, ethnographer, and local terror living in pittsburgh, PA. based in fiction and autobiography, higu’s work focuses on experiences of being black, queer/trans, and a little bonkers. higu’s narratives are a constant endeavor to understand the self and society, with a snarling desire to love and live. inspired by a mixture of Pennsylvanian folk art, eastern orthodox iconography, and Japanese shoujo and BL manga, higu paints with rich colors and creates ink illustrations that feature intricate linework. one time higu made Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel wait five minutes for a 8oz cup of coffee.
Describe yourself in three words
“rascally, sincere, stinky!”
What is your idea of happiness?
snoozing with my cat in the midday sun.
Where do you go or what do you do when you need inspiration to recharge?
“i collect a stack of books (prose, poetry, comics, manga, nonfiction, anything as long as it’s physical and not digital) and hole up in my room to read for a while. i’ll sometimes return to the same texts over and over. it’s a sort of palate cleanser to remind myself what i like about art and the act of creating.”
Photography by Anna Brewer
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