One of our favorite oddballs, Porous Walker (Juxtapoz #96) somehow managed to crawl out of the toy box to answer a couple of questions for us.

In all honesty, Porous is not what you’d typically call a “great” artist. However, his wide range of artistic interests coupled with a drive for innovation has led to fresh ideas and hilarious artwork. Meticulously rendered oil paintings are fine and all, but sometimes you just want a scratchy drawing of a man whose penis sprays rainbow hued drops of paint. Now that we think of it, perhaps we will call him a "great" artist after all.

Learn more about the illusive Porous Walker by reading his answers to our 20 Questions here:

What's the first thing you did when you woke up this morning?

Climbed out of the coffin.


Something about yourself the average person wouldn't guess?

I can make myself invisible.


If you had one day left on Earth, what’s left to be discovered?

My wife’s body again and being eaten by a dracula.


What is your first art-making memory as a kid?

In first grade an architect came to our class and we were supposed to design a building with construction paper and glue.
I made mine out of big paper loops stacked up on top of each other, and the architect came over and told me, "That could never work, because you would need a big finger from the sky to hold it up, like a big sky hook, and those don't exist."
I have never forgotten that and I love the challenge of people telling me it can't be done, even if it can't I still trying to achieve things no one else believes in.

Do you need long periods of time alone, or are you energized by interaction?

Yes, both. I like to absorb as much as I can from others and than do the work alone. I turn into a caveman when I work, and I'd rather keep that private.


Is being in the dark with the lights out frightening or comforting?

I can't eat in the dark for some reason, but everything else is good. When I have to walk in the dark, I chalk it up to practice for if I ever go blind, like when Laura Ingalls' sister went blind on Little House on The Prairie.

What's the most non-art involved activity you continually find yourself enjoying? 

I try to see arts in almost everything, so that’s a hard question. I enjoy staring at nothing sometimes with my mouth open, but there's gotta be some art thing in that? Maybe drawing my drawings.



Have you been to jail? If so, why? If not, why not?

Yes, I went there to pick up a friend once, but I've never been checked in. I don't know why I haven't been in, I think it goes back to my answer to question #2.



What kind of car do you drive?

A station wagon, a blue one.



What’s your biggest non-green inspired indulgence?

Driving the car and riding in airplanes.

What is the single most important thing you did to breakthrough as a career artist?

I'm a career artist? Not quite yet. But the biggest thing is to produce the work and share it, not just talk and think about it; at least that's my opinion.

Best hustle you ever pulled?

Moving dozens and dozens of 1,000 lb stone statues through the sand in Belize with the Mayans workers there; man we hustled.


Are you ever bored?

Not really. Just boring sometimes.



What excites you?

Laughing with my daughter, learning, seeing other people laugh. It excites me when people receive praise and attain success from something they have worked very hard at. It also excites me to see other people work hard, and working very hard excites me.

2023 will look like . . . ?

MMXXIII and humans will have figured out how to keep their mouths shut when they have nothing to say.

If you could have a drink with one artist, living or dead, who would it be?

Mark Twain, or the thing behind all of those good crop circles, and Maurizio Cattelan.



Last passport stamp:

Belize.


Can’t stand:

When I'm pinching off some poop, I have to be seated.


Can't live without:

Oxygen and water.



Words to live by:

Harriet Tubman used to say, "keep going." I think thats good enough.

More on Porous Walker at www.porouswalker.com

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