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Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.48,0:00:05.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--[WESTON PEW] Car seat stroller!
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.88,0:00:08.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--[MARELA ZACARIAS] I don't know how it opens,\Nthough.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.90,0:00:12.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--I might look up the instructions, but you\Ndon't have to...
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.90,0:00:15.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So basically, what we're going to do
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.79,0:00:17.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is we're putting together 1 through 5,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.84,0:00:21.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is the part of the piece that goes on\Nthe ceiling.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.14,0:00:32.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I found out that I got this commission
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.62,0:00:34.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pretty much at the same time--the same week--
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.52,0:00:36.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I found out that I was pregnant.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.64,0:00:38.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Marela Zacarias, artist]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.58,0:00:42.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, we've been joking about how I have\Ntwo babies coming
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.02,0:00:43.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they're due at the same time.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.24,0:00:45.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--There you go!
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.70,0:00:49.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--[PEW] Cool! His first car!
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.22,0:00:49.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--I like it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.86,0:00:50.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ZACARIAS] It looks good.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.74,0:00:51.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--[PEW] A little short for me...
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.56,0:00:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Weston Pew, Husband]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.00,0:00:54.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--[ZACARIAS] I think you can adjust it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.38,0:00:55.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Can you adjust it?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.22,0:01:00.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Bed Stuy, Brooklyn]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.20,0:01:06.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Marela Zacarias's Great Expectations]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.30,0:01:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to finish the piece before I have the\Nbaby,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.00,0:01:14.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so we've been fighting against time.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.68,0:01:21.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I feel like both projects have been developing\Nin the same way.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.76,0:01:24.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the moment when we have the first sonogram,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.82,0:01:28.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we get first rendering done of the piece,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.43,0:01:29.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's all white.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.52,0:01:30.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't know what it's going to look like.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.89,0:01:33.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then as it starts coming together,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.55,0:01:34.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the baby is growing.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.50,0:01:38.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in the same way, our piece is growing.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.60,0:01:39.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Marela, Age 1]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.52,0:01:41.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Marela, Age 3]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.42,0:01:43.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Marela, Age 6]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.44,0:01:45.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I feel like as we move forward even in life,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.82,0:01:48.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's always important to recognize where you\Ncome from,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.99,0:01:52.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's not until we integrate where we come\Nfrom
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.16,0:01:53.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you are complete.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.65,0:01:58.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I moved to New York, I was a muralist.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.22,0:02:04.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I feel like, after 10 years of painting murals--
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.05,0:02:06.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for other people, with other people--
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.39,0:02:08.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my own voice as an artist
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.39,0:02:12.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was wanting to claim a little more space to\Njust experiment,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.10,0:02:14.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's when I decided to go to grad school.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.64,0:02:18.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Grad school put me upside down.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.42,0:02:22.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It really pushed me to find out what I really\Nwanted to say
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.13,0:02:24.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how I wanted to say it.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.80,0:02:26.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'm glad because I feel like
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.62,0:02:29.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,now I can say a lot more things through my\Nown language.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.50,0:02:32.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[The William Vale Hotel, Williamsburg]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.10,0:02:35.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I also think that my work is still talking\Nabout a narrative--
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.68,0:02:37.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's a story behind it,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.45,0:02:38.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's a research.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.16,0:02:42.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So if I was going to make a piece
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.99,0:02:46.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for this new hotel being built in Williamsburg,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.52,0:02:50.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for this place in Brooklyn that is developing\Nso fast,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.45,0:02:54.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that I had to go back to the past--
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.47,0:02:58.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the origins.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.26,0:03:13.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As I'm doing research,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.60,0:03:16.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then things start really coming to the front.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.52,0:03:17.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They feel right.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.34,0:03:18.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's what happened
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.33,0:03:21.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I was going through the archives from\Nthe Brooklyn Historical Society
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.91,0:03:24.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I started looking at maps of Brooklyn.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.39,0:03:28.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think the shape, for me, emerged as \N"This is it."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.34,0:03:33.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I feel like we are at a time where things
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.76,0:03:36.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are moving forward really quickly in Brooklyn
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.67,0:03:38.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and changing rapidly.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.41,0:03:41.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Part of that energy is kind of unstoppable.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.90,0:03:43.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, we're all being affected by it,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.88,0:03:45.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for good and for bad.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.38,0:03:50.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I really wanted to take a moment to look\Nat the past,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.18,0:03:51.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I kind of made the piece about that--
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.81,0:03:54.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about that energy that started it all.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.80,0:04:05.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is actually the ceiling.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.47,0:04:08.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's Williamsburg and Greenpoint and Bushwick.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.82,0:04:09.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a sketch,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.80,0:04:11.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this is only half of the piece.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.47,0:04:13.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a second floor that goes down.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.20,0:04:20.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was working on figurative murals,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.45,0:04:22.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they were telling a story visually.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.02,0:04:26.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You could see it and immediately recognize\Nwhat it was trying to say.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.59,0:04:29.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that was the end of the interaction.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.88,0:04:33.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I feel like abstraction really allows for\Nthe story to be filtered
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.37,0:04:35.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to come out in a different way
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.37,0:04:38.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in which people can either see it or not see\Nit at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.02,0:04:43.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At least it creates a question like, "What\Nis this about?"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.81,0:04:45.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,instead of just being like, "Oh, this is about\Nthis."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.42,0:04:48.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[PEW] Once the colors get on it,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.20,0:04:50.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it starts to show itself--
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.25,0:04:51.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reveal itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.10,0:04:53.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ZACARIAS] In some ways, it's similar to the birth.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.82,0:04:56.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like, you're working really hard for a long time
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.01,0:04:58.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on this thing that you don't know what it's\Ngoing to look like
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.65,0:05:01.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or what kind of personality it's going to have.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.54,0:05:10.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[PEW] The piece is, like, in the crowning\Nstage of labor.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.06,0:05:11.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[BOTH LAUGH]
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.08,0:05:15.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which is when the baby's head begins to show itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.92,0:05:18.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A few more hard pushes and...
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.06,0:05:19.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[BOTH LAUGH]
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.34,0:05:21.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...and we're there!
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.54,0:05:32.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At 12:34 a.m. on January 3rd,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.31,0:05:35.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mateo Zacarias Pew was born.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.40,0:05:42.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ZACARIAS] You know, they have this saying\Nin Spanish, it says,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.18,0:05:45.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[IN SPANISH] "If you want to make God laugh"
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.06,0:05:46.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"just tell him your plans."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.55,0:05:51.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had this idea that I would install the project\Nand then have the baby,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.72,0:05:54.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the building was delayed.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.18,0:05:59.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And me being pregnant also added some delay\Nto everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:01.04,0:06:04.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not everything comes out the way that you\Nsay it will,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.57,0:06:05.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but that's okay.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.83,0:06:08.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, I think I'm lucky to have an amazing husband
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.93,0:06:12.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who supports my artwork 100%
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.18,0:06:14.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and who will help me raise Mateo
Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.82,0:06:17.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and who will help me be able to get things done
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.90,0:06:19.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the studio.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:19.82,0:06:24.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because it seems like it's not going to get slower.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.04,0:06:29.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm definitely not planning on stopping my work.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.88,0:06:35.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And hopefully I get to spend all of my time\Nwith my baby
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.80,0:06:37.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and see him grow
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.46,0:06:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and be there for him.