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[hums and whistles]

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Come here

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[whistles]

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The enthusiasm when she comes is amazing [laughs]

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[OFF-SCREEN INTERVIEWER] "So is there a routine for you?"

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Pretty much guaranteed that i'm going to go to the studio, at some point or several times in the day

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[whistles]

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This is going to be exciting, to have--

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This new big surface.

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[whistles]

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"Eddie Martinez Whistles While He Works"

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[sound of electric sander against canvas]

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Eddie Martinez--Artist

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Franny--French Bulldog

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Alright, let's see if I can't get a little sketch up on here.

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[shakes spray can]

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[Whistles]

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[Sound of spray can]

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I learned a massive amount from graffitti

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that I've taken into the studio,

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[whistles]

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[sound of spray paint]

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in terms of scale and how to make large marks

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and how to take a small drawing and make it large.

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I mean, that's totally invaluable, the skill set.

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Not bad.

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[sound of spray can]

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It's sort of like a boxing ring in here--it's a very physical process.

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[sound of spray paint]

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Maybe I'm a little addicted to that.

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[sound of spray paint]

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It's a real part of my life--it's a real way for me to work things out,

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outside of just the actual painting.

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[sound of spray can]

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God damn it, come on.

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I might be one of the most impatient people in the world.

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Certainly, at times I can't control how the anxiety and impatience and aggressive energy comes out.

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It's best when it happens in here, so I like to try and harness that cause no one can judge me, or...

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[sound of feet shuffling]

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I do have to trick myself into getting through parts of a painting.

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[dog barking]

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Come on, Fanny, come on.

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If it gets to a point where I know a painting's going to be a painting, sometimes there's that real sense of chore,

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So then i'll have to, like, drink a bottle of wine [laughs]

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Or do something fun,

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Like walking around Greenpoint.

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[sound of tapping rhythmically]

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[whistles]

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The best thing, and the most freeing feeling for me, is when I'm just moving the brush and making those strokes

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and am not standing back across the room looking at it.

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it's when I'm completely lost in there.

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[sound of brush against canvas]

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There's that sense that I can express any kind of movement or action or noise or whatever i want in there.

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[sound of brush scraping against canvas]

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[sighs]

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[sound of foot tapping lightly]

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I think that's it.

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I think if I start painting I'm going to start making mistakes.

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"Yeah"

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Which is fine, but i dont want to.

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"Yeah"

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But the composition is working and that's exciting. I love when i get a first composition. That's pretty rare--

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A first take composition that i want to go with.

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Now I said that and I see something I hate but...

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"What do you hate?"

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This shoulder shape here, it should come into like,

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it should drop off, like, there.

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[sound of pallet knife scraping against canvas]

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When I can make a drawing in 25 minutes and be really moved by it, that's what I want to be painting.

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But I dont know how to do it yet, which is exciting,

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Because if I already knew how to do it, that'd be kind of depressing [laughs]

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[sings "I live my life on..."]

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[whistles lightly]