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(Laughter)

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This is what it feels like in my city all the time: super tense.

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Diana Al-Hadid--Artiste

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"What’s gonna happen?"
[lauhgs]

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Applicationeffetsonores-iPhone de Ryan

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"You should do quick steps there"

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"And then..."

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[scratching sound]

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"How is the beat studio?"

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"Boom!"

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"What up!"

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"You gonna carry it sexy"

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[laughing] "Yeah"

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[music]

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[sounds of blowtorch]

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Four years ago this whole floor was just one empty space

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[sounds of drilling]

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There was no plumbing there was no heaters, there was no electrical

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Does it look level to you?

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Lucky for me, I got it grant and I partitioned to move it out

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some of it is rented to other artists.

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And I curved out a space for myself that was way bigger than I ever dreamt

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I was taking on too much in figuring out how to make it happen.

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It's real. It works. Sort of.

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When I first moved to New-York, my studio was maybe 700 sq feet

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I made sculptures within inches of the walls, it was really difficult,

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Especially for the work that I made. It taugh me how to be efficient,

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how to save space, how to save money and especially how to save time.

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Cause no one helps me, and when you don’t have a lot of resources, you get sharp.

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[inaudible speaking]

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Yeah!

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[hammering and drilling noise]

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This past year I had a pretty fast growth.

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It just impossible to do this alone on this scale.

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Do you have a bucket for me? Yes!

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So, now I have assistants that help me make these things.

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That's also why I have a studio manager to allocate different tasks to people

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now I can focus on something that requires my attention.

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Working on a set this large is amazing, it’s so much fun

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[Diana laughs]

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"When I was first working for her I was her only assistant."

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"I spent like 6 months working really closely with just her I learnt a lot about all different techniques."

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'It might just be that one rod".

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"You are great"

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"She’a kind of a “go big or go home” person"

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"Yes, why won’t I want it there?"

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"Everything is like balls to the wall, giant sculptures."

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"And all the process here are really specific, and a little bit weird and unique"

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"So largely what I do is training other people, on how to do something in the way that Diana wants it done."

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All this stuff I do people can learn. It’s really easy. I think. Everything I do is easy.

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"Yeah, but it also like watching the master at work."

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[Diana laughs]

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I mean to touch fiber glass like you do, to hold it, you can’t do it yourself.

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"I’m much faster."

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Yeah, and you make it look more natural.

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It was kind of messy here for many years.

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Because of Nick, now I look like a professional.

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"She likes receipts, keeping track of everything to the penny, so that’s actually a difficult part.

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Tons of details. [laughs] Exciting details.

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John and I have a competition.

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It’s like I have to get her in the office, and he has to get her on the studio on the same day. So we split her."

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[inaudible background conversation]

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Everybody's going outside

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This is like a really great working environment. It’s really nice being here Im definitely learning a lot

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but on the other hand it is really time consuming.

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So I think there’ll come a point at which I need to go do my own thing now.

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The hardest part of leaving here will be the fact that we laugh so much at work

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I mean it’s serious here, we are getting shit done, but the fact that the vibe is really relax is so nice.

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[inaudible speaking]

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There’s huge change that happens at the end,

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like once everything got attached and a lot of the big main decisions are made.

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My focus is on these minuscule details, the knots in the books.

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There are still supports, like here there is little ones inside here, and here.

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And this drips kind of obscure where the supports are. To make it looks like you are in the scifi kind of world

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That the rules of physics are being bent.

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Elements come on and come off, so my job is predicating some of those things.

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We are like very geeky about ways to problem solve large complicated sculptures.

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The sculptures itself is not built in a rational way. It has more of an aesthetic goal rather than a tectonic one.

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So the things I am working mostly right now are construction manuals on how to assemble one of these things.

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I am always running out to the studio measuring pieces and coming back to the computer.

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It’s part of the sculpture that you don’t see. These instruction manuals will stay with the sculptures for the rest of its life.

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Sometimes I ll get home after working here, and then I have a lot of dreams about cutting, gluing,

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and I am not sure if I am dreaming about doing her work or doing my work.

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And in the end it doesn’t make a big difference to me.

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What we are doing in the studio together is our own problem for a while.

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And at some point, it will be the world problem. Forever.
[laughs]

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The art world is really temperamental, so I could be down to myself next year, who knows.

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But I am careful, and I try to be prepared for luck.

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Artist are some of the savviest, inventive people, they have to manage a really illogical pursuit,

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the rest of the world is a lot more logical.

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Every artist I know is dealing with lot of stress, and a lot of desire; and a lot of curiosity.

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They are kind of sneaky undercover people like you and me so be careful, we're everywhere.

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Cleans party!