Interview with Tom Senior, 2005

Do you produce your work for a particular age group or gender?

No

If you don't find your work humorous do you still use it?

A lot of my work is humorous, but it doesn't have to be so in order to please me.

Have you ever bothered looking at any humour theory?

No

I took examples of your work to the local pub, the Fine art painting course and an old peoples home, where would you consider it to receive the most positive interest?

The pub I suppose.

(It was the pub they all laughed out loud, a few sniggers from art students, they were all interested but like to criticise! I got free cake at the old peoples home but not much interest!)

Why is this thing looking so happy-Because it's just eaten your jacket, I design fancy things for roofs-will you marry me.

The idea of using two contradicting scripts and quickly leaping from one script to another seems fluent throughout you drawings? Do you create these scripts before the image?

Sometimes image first, sometimes text first.

What's your favourite film?

Don't have a favourite one exactly, but two of my favourites are MY LIFE AS A DOG and DEAD MAN

Do you like Black Adder and Monty Python?

I used to like them when I was a kid, but now I find them quite dated.

All humour theory relies upon the "affective moral principles" of the individual viewer (what they view to be morally acceptable or not). Do you feel that you like to push what is deemed morally correct?

Sometimes, but to do it all the time gets tedious. I like to confuse peoples expectations.

Do you feel that your work pokes innocent fun at society?

I guess so.

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