Deborah Brown: Tennis Elbow 94

Your name  Deborah Brown

Your current location  East Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Your favorite pastime  Walking Trout, my hound/beagle mix, around my neighborhood

Something you like  Instagram

Something you dislike  People who don’t clean up after their dogs

Your defining characteristic  Perseverance

What would someone close to you say is your defining characteristic  Obsession

Your favorite artist  Richard Wagner

Favorite word or phrase  I got this!

What aspect of your work is most important to you  Authenticity

Who do you admire the most and why  My sister. PhD in physics from MIT, two wonderful grown children, a green thumb, a dedicated scientist, modest, gracious and smart. My hero.

Your worst habit  Forming quick judgments and then having to backtrack just as quickly

The first thing you think of in the morning  Get the dog out, quick!

What have you always wanted to do and have not done  Live in Rome

Your best decision  Marrying Eric

Your worst decision  Not having the guts to move to New York right after college. Instead, I accepted a college teaching job and stayed until I got tenure. Then I resigned and moved New York in 1982.  I should have gotten here sooner.

Your favorite street and why  Waterbury Street in East Williamsburg. All my motifs are there.

What has made you the person that you are  The terror of being mediocre

Something you treasure  My mother’s Arne Jacobsen Egg Chair 

What would the child you once were think of the adult you are now  You got to be an artist and live in the greatest city in the world, fulfilling your earliest ambition.  Beyond lucky. 

Your greatest fear  Running out of time