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Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.78,0:00:13.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Marcel Dzama: Organizing Chaos]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.36,0:00:27.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So these costumes are quite old.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.20,0:00:27.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[LAUGHS]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.50,0:00:34.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This one was just a halloween costume.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.64,0:00:35.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[LAUGHS]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.28,0:00:46.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I guess I have a hoarder tendency.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.46,0:00:51.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was the one thing I didn’t adapt to\Nin being a New Yorker,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.05,0:00:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to get rid of things as quickly\Nas your small apartment allows.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.06,0:01:09.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm originally from Winnipeg, Canada.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.02,0:01:14.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The winters are quite cold,\Nand last for almost half the year.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.76,0:01:16.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s hard to get together to socialize
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.83,0:01:22.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because there's this barrier of weather\Nthat keeps you isolated.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.42,0:01:27.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I used to color a lot as a kid.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.62,0:01:33.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would draw a lot of Universal monsters.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.52,0:01:36.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Any of those characters\Nlike The Wolfman and Dracula.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.22,0:01:44.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then created my own world\Nto have something to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.46,0:01:56.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The thing with living in Winnipeg is,\Nespecially in the winter,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.52,0:01:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the horizon and the land just kind of...\Nthey just dissolved into each other.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.99,0:02:03.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you would see this,\Nalmost like a blank page.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.19,0:02:07.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if someone would walk into it,\Nit would look like a blank piece of paper
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.87,0:02:08.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a figure.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.88,0:02:13.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I think that really\Nsubconsciously influenced my style.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.31,0:02:22.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was in art school,\NI was still living in my parents' place.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.65,0:02:27.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I did have quite a bit of larger works\Non board from my grandfather's farm.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.91,0:02:29.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He took apart a barn
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.35,0:02:33.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I used a lot of the panels from that\Nand painted on it with house paint.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.72,0:02:37.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then there was a house fire.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.58,0:02:43.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I basically lost all of my work from the past
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.30,0:02:45.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and most of my possessions.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.94,0:02:51.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I started drawing on hotel stationery
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.02,0:02:54.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that ended up being my thesis.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.35,0:02:56.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["The Royal Art Lodge" collaborative work]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.90,0:03:03.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those were the works that\NI would start to get known for,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.68,0:03:08.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this isolated background\Nwith just a few figures.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.40,0:03:16.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After the house fire there was\Nthis real feeling of loss.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.56,0:03:19.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, on the other hand,\Nthere was also this possibility--
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.94,0:03:24.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, in some ways, also made it easier\Nto move to New York.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.48,0:03:38.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I used to have more of a red and brown palette.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.54,0:03:41.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm definitely going through a blue period.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.28,0:03:51.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I did some political work in the Bush years,\Nduring the Iraq war.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.06,0:03:53.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Trump years, I kind of felt like,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.88,0:03:59.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to go to sleep, I needed this exorcism of\Nthe news media that I had taken in that day.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.07,0:04:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I needed to get it out.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.94,0:04:16.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--I included the Dada image because\Nthey had the disgust of World War I.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.42,0:04:23.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--So I thought it was good timing for the\Ndisgust of what’s going on right now [LAUGHS]
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.26,0:04:25.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--in our political age.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.14,0:04:29.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--I think it's gotten me in a\Nbit of a downward spiral.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.12,0:04:35.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After the Sandy Hook shooting,\NI stopped drawing guns.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.30,0:04:38.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then once Trump got in, I felt like it,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.67,0:04:43.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as some sort of resistance symbol,\NI brought it back.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.78,0:04:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The revolution is going to be female.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.86,0:04:53.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Switch it up.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.62,0:05:07.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I moved to New York,\NI found the work getting much more claustrophobic.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.70,0:05:10.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanted to put some sort of order to it.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.16,0:05:15.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I found these old dance magazines and\Nrealized I should put them in dance positions.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.98,0:05:20.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's how I put some\Norganization to the chaos
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.29,0:05:22.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of this claustrophobia.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.54,0:05:33.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I even turned a lot of the creatures\Ninto costumes for humans.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.26,0:05:36.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought of it more as a stage\Nfrom that point.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.58,0:05:41.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,More of a dance element,\Nkind of almost like a Broadway show.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.78,0:05:56.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This has been a few artists that I like to\Nreference in my work quite a bit.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.40,0:06:00.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Duchamp, Goya, William Blake, Picabia--\Ndefinitely my heroes.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.52,0:06:01.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[LAUGHS]
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.42,0:06:11.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Picabia, had done this ballet,\Nwhere there was this polka-dotted character.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.30,0:06:15.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That really inspired me to move into\Nmore of a polka-dotted direction.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.32,0:06:30.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I did this just after the school shooting\Nin Florida.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.09,0:06:33.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Emma Gonzalez did this really powerful speech
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.33,0:06:38.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Fox News was trying to bring her down\Nwith some sort of criticism.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.58,0:06:43.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I drew this group of\Nconspiracy theory people
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.60,0:06:46.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this circus surrounding this young lady.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.16,0:06:55.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I start quite late in the studio.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.34,0:07:00.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The more interesting ideas\Ncome out of my work
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.22,0:07:01.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in that witching hour.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.49,0:07:05.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I feel that's where that world is set--\Nthat I've created.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.24,0:07:10.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's more of a flow,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.32,0:07:16.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I have one foot in subconscious\Nand one in reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.06,0:07:18.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I try not to censor myself.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.86,0:07:22.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I just let whatever at the top of my head\Ncome out.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.31,0:07:26.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Butterflies have come into the work.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.70,0:07:28.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Moths and different insects.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.14,0:07:34.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I always keep it open to\Nwhatever the mood is.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.64,0:07:39.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's this possibility of\Nanything can happen.