Interviewing Wayne White

Ron: Hello Mr. Wayne. It’s a pleasure to finally meet you.

Wayne: Hi, well you are supposed to act impressed, shouldn't you?

Ron: I guess that’s the case with some people. So beauty is embarrassing huh?

Wayne: Sadly it is. I think it is. And it is true. Nobody deserves to be beautiful unless they know how to use it properly.

Ron: So let me start by asking you a question. Since you are from Tennessee, a place where there are open landscapes and emptiness, what made you have the desire for art?

Wayne: Art doesn’t come from where or when you live, art is a lifestyle. It’s the spirit that you have in you. Artists like me are always trying to reach a world or a vision where art can be our lives. And let me tell you something, I reached that place. I live with art, I see everything as a special kind of art. It’s in me, twenty-four seven.

Ron: That is definitely a unique privilege to have. I noticed your passion to words. You use words in unique, and for most of the time, inappropriate ways. Can you explain this detail to me? I myself can’t have this artistic feeling toward words.

Wayne: Well to begin with, it is letters that amaze me, far more than words. And it is hard for people without artistic minds to process how I think. Ever since I was young, I always had this passion for letters. I feel like each individual letter has a different personality.

Ron: And you include comedy and humor in them, correct?

Wayne: Definitely, what would art mean to us without comedy? This is the best key to live with. Hell, I use comedy with what people call “bad words”.

Ron: I personally think that art can live without comedy. I see people who draw sad drawings, people who design electronically to create an artistic object. I don’t see comedy in that.

Wayne: You say that now, but you can never live without comedy. People would be simply depressed. I even took happy pills and anti depressants when I was young. So like I said, the art world needs someone with a sense of humor to play with it. It is begging for that person to come!

Ron: That’s a very meaningful theory, and I can see some truth in it. So here is my last question to you. Since you had many experiences, such as working with peewee’s playhouse, creating puppet shows, making sculptures with words, imitating your own congressman’s mask, creating the world’s biggest George Jones face, etc, what would you think your best art piece ever is?

Wayne: Definitely my word paintings, especially “The Beauty is Embarrassing”. You can’t beat that one since it has the most meaning.

Ron: No doubt about that. Thank you for the interview Mr. Wayne.

Wayne: You are most welcome, just keep up your comedy going.