Portland Center Stage Jan/Feb 2015 | Page 61

AUDIENCE INTERPRETATION DK: I love it when audiences read anything into anything. People come up and say, “So, what was that piece about?” “Well, what do you think it was about?” I would much rather hear what they have to say than what we have to say about our own work. We both kind of don’t like talking about our work very much. It’s really more interesting to us to hear how other people interpret it. Sometimes their thinking is right in line with what we were thinking while we were creating it. Other times, it’s something we never would imagine, but we’re like, “Yeah! That was totally what it was about! That’s it!” ES: And a lot of times, too, our work just evolves, you know? We go down to the seed, and we don’t know what that tree is going to look like at that point, how it’s going to turn out. I find a lot of pleasure in sowing some seeds and then just seeing what grow ̸()58