When Are You Happy

By Joanna Lisiak

"When Are You Happy" brings together around a thousand unfinished or concrete "invitation-questions" for which there are no answers, no clear answers, or answers that keep changing. These are not rhetorical questions, nor are they questions one has to answer right away. Rather, they are questions that are allowed to seep in first. Through their sometimes suggestive approach, they draw things toward their essence in a highly indirect, subtle way and reveal empty spaces. These are questions that bring to light what one may not yet have truly faced, or has only supposedly dealt with.

While some spark mental cinema and provoke exclamation marks, other questions strike the darker chords. Or they make you feel caught out, because perhaps you know less about yourself than you would like. Because above every question, invisibly, there is this: Who are you? Why do you say it like that? What is it about this question that unsettles you?

Just as Radio Yerevan once answered, "In principle, yes...", in many cases one could answer here with, "It depends...". But under certain circumstances, it may be even better than answering to let these questions stand on their own and choose from them the ones one is better able to answer. Because one thing should not be forgotten: the best answers are known to lead to new questions. Once again, this is about impulses for one's own reflections, for mental walks, or for new thought experiments.

The answers lie within each person anyway; in this book, perhaps more than ever.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H33ZV318
• ISBN13: 9798197520722
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.2" x 5.0"