Let's Play Proust Questionnaire with Katherine Pont of Mine!

From the phantasmagoric imagination of the brilliant London-based designer, Katherine Pont, we bring you the newest collection for Mine entitled Elsie Moved in Circles! To add to the fun, Katherine has agreed to answer the Proust Questionnaire for us...

* What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
a broken heart

• Where would you like to live?

Just nestling into a new home so London is it for now. If I was to dream up a fictional escape, I would catch the zig zag train to the Rootabaga Country. My friend Vija introduced me to this story, and my drawings are looking a little zig zag.

An illustration from Carl Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories

* What is your idea of earthly happiness?

Tigers running circles until they turn the ground into melted butter. I had a copy of the little black sambo as a child, and today for all my running around, I wish my circles would do the same.

Tiger Butter, Delicious!

* To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Daydreaming in a procrastinating kind of way

* Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
The harlequin from "repent harlequin" said the tick tock man, coz he rebelled against the clock.

The Heroic Harlequin

• Who are your favorite characters in history?
The Epic does not move me so much but I'd say Christopher Columbus, because although the maps he studied were flat, he saw the world in it's circumference.

Columbus' Map

* Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
Alma nofear for bestowing me with her bravery, and Cat Power for singing about sitting on a ruin, but turning sadness into beauty.

Alma: Fears Not, Giant Masks!

Cat Power in Bogotá

* Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
The woman from Italo Calvino's Cosmic Cosmos who launched herself into the moon for unrequited love... or a less forlorn form of heroics would be maybe…

* Your favorite painter?
There are different modes of favouritism, but two of would have to be Henry Darger and Wolfi, two outsider artists with a love for laborious and intricate detail.

Henry Darger's Apartment

The Vivian Girls


Adolf Wölfli was an artist AND musician--seen on the book cover here with his paper trumpet


Amelie-Claress, 1908

* Your favorite musician?
Polly Jean Harvey or Eoin Oh Really ( O' Ruainigh ).

The inimitable PJ and the inimitable Mr.Cave

Eoin

* The quality you most admire in a man?
Boyish charm

• The quality you most admire in a woman?
Loyalty, friendship and bright eyes.

* Your favorite virtue?
Patience

• Your favorite occupation?
Day dreaming about being productive.

• Who would you have liked to be?
No pretenses for being anyone else… maybe a super hero version of me… I get this feeling when I wear my red tights.

Little Nemo, fellow fan of red tights ;-)