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Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.22,0:00:10.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Stephanie Syjuco: Making Time]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.52,0:00:21.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm thankful that\NI have a house that
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.06,0:00:23.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has a really beautiful\Ngardening area.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.88,0:00:29.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've been doing a lot of gardening,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.28,0:00:33.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it actually stemmed from some research\Nthat I was doing on empire crops.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.55,0:00:38.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Growing samples of tobacco,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.56,0:00:42.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and corn, and cotton, and indigo--
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.26,0:00:47.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all sorts of different plants that actually\Nhad a lot of implications with colonialism.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.82,0:00:54.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The garden actually has become\Na way to learn more,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.11,0:00:55.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a research process for my studio,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.97,0:00:59.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but also to just center a little bit more.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.76,0:01:10.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When most people get interested in being an artist,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.68,0:01:14.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they have this idea that\Nyou're just in your studio all the time.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.68,0:01:21.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think the irony is that\Nthe more invested you get into it as a career,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.05,0:01:25.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the ratios of time spent managing the projects
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.47,0:01:27.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,versus actual studio time,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.69,0:01:29.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,radically shift.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.58,0:01:33.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, maybe there's this magical moment\Nwhere it changes
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.50,0:01:36.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I have full-time assistants helping me,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.72,0:01:39.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but my reality, I think, is...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.20,0:01:42.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's a lot more paperwork\Nthan I wish it were.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.82,0:01:54.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, these are the pattern pieces,\Nfor the American prairie dress.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.96,0:01:58.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They make it as easy as possible for you.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.55,0:02:00.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, you literally cut out the pattern pieces,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.73,0:02:02.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you pin it to the fabric,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.71,0:02:05.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then sew where it indicates.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.06,0:02:07.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it has the bonnet,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.63,0:02:08.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an apron,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.63,0:02:10.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the, kind of, Peter Pan collar,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.16,0:02:11.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then these puffed sleeves.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.58,0:02:16.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's also going to be\Na Civil War antebellum dress.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.38,0:02:20.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's part of an exhibition at\Nthe Smithsonian Museum
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.08,0:02:22.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the Renwick Invitational.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.44,0:02:24.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Renwick is in the American galleries,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.82,0:02:26.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which I'm really excited about.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.29,0:02:32.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're adding this work along with\Nother projects that relate to fabrication--
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.20,0:02:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of images, and textiles, and culture--
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.00,0:02:39.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but looking at it through a lens of critique.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.88,0:02:47.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["The Visible Invisible" (2018)]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.56,0:02:52.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The costumes may not be historically accurate\Nat all.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.78,0:02:57.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're really tapping into the American imagination.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.78,0:03:05.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It has all the markers of that\Ntime period in American history,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.82,0:03:07.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's more of a fiction.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.80,0:03:12.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're in this chroma key green\Nthat people use for video
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.38,0:03:14.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and photographic backdrops.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.18,0:03:17.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a color that you're not supposed to see.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.34,0:03:23.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This idea of American history is\Nso embedded in our national psyche
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.48,0:03:25.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it's almost invisible.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.14,0:03:28.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whether it's tropes of, say, womanhood,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.45,0:03:31.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or even of Western expansion,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.69,0:03:34.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or Puritan religiosity--
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.52,0:03:37.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all that is in these costumes.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.66,0:03:41.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like manifesting ghosts,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.48,0:03:44.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hauling forward all this American history.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.09,0:03:51.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm allowed to come up with\Nthe strangest ideas,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.89,0:03:54.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and not everybody says yes.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.26,0:03:56.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when they do say yes,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.06,0:04:00.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can make this thing happen\Nthat is almost, to me, unbelievable.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.58,0:04:03.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nothing is really a waste of time.