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Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.06,0:00:07.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Bed Stuy, Brooklyn]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.12,0:00:09.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[October 2013]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.12,0:00:11.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ZACARIAS] Yeah, I think like, it needs to\Nbe like that...
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.46,0:00:12.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Marela Zacarías, Artist]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.78,0:00:17.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because we need it to come out to like here,\Nyou know?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.14,0:00:21.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[New York Close Up]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.88,0:00:24.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Perfecto!
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.54,0:00:26.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So let's get started!
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.30,0:00:28.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["Marela Zacarías Goes Big & Goes Home"]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.30,0:00:34.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don’t want to cover the whole thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.26,0:00:37.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I guess the trick is just to barely, barely\Ntouch it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.72,0:00:38.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because the more...
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.43,0:00:42.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like, if you push, it’s going to start changing\Nshape.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.26,0:00:49.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Marela has been commissioned to make a piece\Nfor the U.S. Consulate in Monterrey, Mexico.]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.12,0:00:52.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[It will be her largest sculpture to date.]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.07,0:00:55.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I painted murals for ten years.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.07,0:00:58.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And while making this work and being in the\Ncommunity is wonderful,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.87,0:01:02.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there’s a part of it, of making public art,\Nthat is a little constraining,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.95,0:01:05.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where the creative process only lasts
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.61,0:01:09.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the time that you’re making this little\Nmockup.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.97,0:01:12.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was part me of that needed more,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.04,0:01:17.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that needed that moment of creating while\Nyou're making.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.36,0:01:23.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah this part of the process is pretty much\Nall instinct...instinctive.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.42,0:01:28.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just try to find like pressure points and\Ntension in the mesh
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.34,0:01:31.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it kind of tells me where to go.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.68,0:01:35.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There’s twenty different pieces that come\Ntogether into one.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.13,0:01:38.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They all fit into each other...like a puzzle.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.82,0:02:05.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[January 2014]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.34,0:02:35.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My nature is very colorful.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.76,0:02:38.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, like I want to express color.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.18,0:02:43.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Once I choose colors I have to kind of record\Nwhat I’m doing.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.98,0:02:47.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I number all the colors that I use.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.92,0:02:53.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We’ve created our own kind of color numbers,\Nyou know?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.78,0:02:57.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This piece actually has sixty-seven colors.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.12,0:03:01.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Part of it is very intuitive, the way that\NI’m choosing colors,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.09,0:03:04.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but then I kind of have to put down a record\Nof those decisions.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.50,0:03:06.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’m not that kind of personality
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.62,0:03:09.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where I like to plan and I’m organized,\Nyou know?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.82,0:03:11.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s something that I’ve had to learn.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.02,0:03:13.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is 31, yeah?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.68,0:03:16.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then this is 5.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.36,0:03:21.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is 22.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.14,0:03:24.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like I would probably just extend those lines,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.54,0:03:26.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like up to here.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.06,0:03:26.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.02,0:03:30.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ROOPENIAN] So I’m just usually looking\Nat the map
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.43,0:03:32.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and trying to get a point
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.20,0:03:35.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where I can know generally what her intention\Nis
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.19,0:03:38.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and not have to be back and forth with each\Ndetail.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.93,0:03:40.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because we live in Brooklyn
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.23,0:03:44.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we can’t have space that just lets us
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.81,0:03:46.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,put up what we want to see...
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.57,0:03:48.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I never quite get to see it fully put together.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.97,0:03:52.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Marela's always got a secret in her back pocket,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.30,0:03:54.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is the final piece.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.24,0:04:03.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ZACARIAS] I’ve always felt the influence\Nof patterns from textiles.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.04,0:04:08.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The ways that color is being used in some\Nof these is sophisticated.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.90,0:04:10.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like for example here,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.10,0:04:13.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, just the uses of pink with this
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.62,0:04:17.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,kind of earthy red and then a little yellow.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.60,0:04:21.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it’s you know kind of unpredictable\Nand exciting.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.09,0:04:26.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That’s sort of something that I look to\Ndo in my own work.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.94,0:04:30.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh this is mom, with me, in Mexico.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.23,0:04:32.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My mom is an anthropologist.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.28,0:04:38.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So she actually led, like, the research on\Nthis project.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.02,0:04:41.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These ancient cultures used their clothing
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.92,0:04:44.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a way to show their relationship
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.29,0:04:47.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to their universe, to the earth, to their\Ncommunity.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.70,0:04:49.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the amazing thing is that
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.01,0:04:52.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a lot of these symbols from the Mayan era
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.38,0:04:53.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are still being used today.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.86,0:04:56.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So there's some kind of a cultural resistance
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.53,0:04:59.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that happened through this clothing.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.72,0:05:03.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[PEW] Marela, you know, has lived half of\Nher life,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.02,0:05:04.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or over half of her life now,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.41,0:05:07.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the U.S. even though she's from Mexico,\Nso...
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.51,0:05:09.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a beautiful aspect that it is, kind\Nof,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.63,0:05:12.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the return of her gifts back to, kind of,\Nher home,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.25,0:05:13.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the homeland--
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.22,0:05:17.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even though it will be the U.S. consulate,\Nbut...
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.94,0:05:19.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[LAUGHS]
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.38,0:05:22.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ZACARIAS] And this 36.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.62,0:05:24.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[PEW] All that’s really left here...
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.85,0:05:26.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, the colors and patterns, obviously,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.33,0:05:27.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are really shaping up here now
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.82,0:05:31.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and just to kind of dial in on some last taping\Nand designs there
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.68,0:05:33.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then we’re going to be pretty much done.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.94,0:05:37.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[February 2014]
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.32,0:05:40.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is usually, you know...
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.34,0:05:43.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like two or three all-nighters.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.17,0:05:46.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tearing out hair and biting nails.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.73,0:05:53.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So yeah, the next month,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.73,0:05:59.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Saturday night we have a baby shower for this\Npiece.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.34,0:06:03.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then the piece leaves on Tuesday.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.74,0:06:05.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There’s a truck involved
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.68,0:06:08.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then there’s a plane involved at some\Npoint.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.42,0:06:10.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then it lands in Mexico.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.26,0:06:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Monterrey, Mexico]
Dialogue: 0,0:06:15.00,0:06:18.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[June 2014]
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.14,0:06:25.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[U.S. Consulate General Monterrey]
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.08,0:06:30.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Marela is showing her work in Mexico for the first time.]
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.56,0:06:32.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ZACARIAS] Thinking back to when I was sixteen
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.77,0:06:34.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and was coming to the States,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.35,0:06:37.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was really interested in the Mexican muralists.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:37.49,0:06:39.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were able to paint the history of Mexico
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.60,0:06:42.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in these very important buildings.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.26,0:06:44.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even though the politics have changed so much,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.42,0:06:45.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can still go to the National Palace
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.96,0:06:49.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and see the story of colonization and the\NRevolution.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:49.53,0:06:54.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was kind of crazy that that this opportunity\Ncame
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.17,0:06:57.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for me to do it in a place that is also
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.05,0:06:59.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a building that is going to be there for a long time
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.57,0:07:02.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that has these connotations of history.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.89,0:07:06.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The piece can live for a long time.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:23.90,0:07:27.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Jorge Herrera Lavín, Father]
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.38,0:07:29.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[LAVIN, IN SPANISH] This is fabulous.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.38,0:07:34.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s like, in a space so strict and full\Nof rules...
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.02,0:07:40.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's like, this gives it a little flexibility.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.34,0:07:41.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don’t know.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.76,0:07:46.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like it reduces and tempers the rigid\Nprotocols.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.48,0:07:51.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ZACARIAS] I mean, there’s so many problems\Nwith the immigration system today.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.58,0:07:54.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The relationship between these two countries--
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.90,0:07:57.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the way that undocumented workers are treated,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.55,0:08:00.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the way that people are being deported.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.05,0:08:03.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yet, there’s stories of people who come\Nhere and,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.79,0:08:06.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like me, are now able to make art.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.18,0:08:07.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, I’ve been very lucky.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.99,0:08:09.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, for me to do this piece,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.61,0:08:13.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was like really meeting myself
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.19,0:08:15.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,kind of in the middle of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:15.26,0:08:17.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to connect to the people that are,\Nlike,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.70,0:08:19.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,going through this transition.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.04,0:08:21.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You’re changing when you’re going through\Nthe consulate,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.49,0:08:23.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not just because you’re getting a visa or\Na green card,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:23.95,0:08:25.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but your life is changing.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:25.47,0:08:28.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know that there’s part of me that has\Ngone through this
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.51,0:08:30.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that wants to give something to the people
Dialogue: 0,0:08:30.51,0:08:33.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who are going through that change.