This week, artist Margot Bethel answers 20 Questions from Guardian Arts&Culture.

1. What's been your most inspirational moment in the last five years?
Working with a diverse group of local and foreign artists and supporters, ecologists, educators, thespians, musicians and kids while running The Hub. At the time, the space embodied a powerful surge of energy and excitement, joy and camaraderie. I don't remember ever feeling so alive.

2. What's your least favorite piece of artwork?
I don't have one.

3. What's your favorite period of art history?
As a young student interested in painting, I was most exposed to the Impressionist and Expressionist periods. Later as I learned more about design I became attracted to mid-century modernism.

4. What are your top 5 movies of all time?

I can't pick five out of them all, it's impossible. So are here five of my favorite comedies: The Life of Brian, Murial's Wedding, Moonstruck, Career Girls and Tootsie.

5. Coffee or tea?
Coffee in the morning and tea in the afternoon. I'm bi-continental like that.

6. What book are you reading now?
I am dipping in and out of "The Art of Travel" and "The Power of Now".

7. What project are you working on now?
I am continuing to develop two ideas: one I began last year called "Who The Hell Do I Think I Am?". Recently we produced some notebooks with Sonia Farmer of Poinciana Paper Press under this theme. I am also working on my "Sonorotic" carvings - a project that is associated with sound-based work.

8. What's the last show that surprised you?
Since I've been hibernating I haven't seen much work lately, but I am blown away by the recent developments in the art scene in Nassau. The heightened activity is not so much surprising as inspiring.

9. Saxons, One Family, Valley Boys or Roots?
Valley.

10. If you had to be stranded on one Family Island which one would it be?
Eleuthera. Over the past 30 years I've spent a considerable amount of time stranded there so I know of what I speak. Silos, caves, hills, stunning harbors and beaches - long meandering drives, starry skies and good restaurants. A well-balanced respite from the city.

11. What's the most memorable artwork you've ever seen?
Sonambient sound sculptures made and designed by Harry Bertoia and his son Val Bertoia. They look like unfettered harps or tall patches of tarnished brass-colored grass. Some of these gorgeously resonant art forms are over six feet tall - so elegant and majestic and made with exacting precision.

12. Which artist do you have a secret crush on?
It's a secret.

13. If you could have lunch with anyone who would it be?
My parents. I have a lot of unanswered questions.

14. Who do you think is the most important Bahamian in the country's history?
For me, that remains to be seen. I have great admiration for the people who fight for the rights of minorities; the health of the ecosystem and to save wild or domesticated animals. I think these are among the most important people in any nation.

15. Who is your favorite living artist?
Gosh these are such severe questions, how do you pick just one? But I do think that Peter Minshall is pure genius.

16. Sunrise or Sunset?
Sunset. Unless I stay up all night...in which case it's a tie.

17. What role does the artist have in society?
To be brave and honest.

18. What's your most embarrassing moment?
These days, it's every time I put on a bikini.

19. What wouldn't you do without?
A sense of humor.

20. What's your definition of beauty?
A cloud? A rock. Something simultaneously fleeting and eternal that captures my attention.

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