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Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.80,0:00:12.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was younger, I would do this a lot.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.86,0:00:15.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would cut faces or pictures out of books
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.85,0:00:17.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I would tape them to sticks--
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.14,0:00:21.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,set them up in my room\Nand shine lights at them,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.65,0:00:24.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that when I turned my own lights off,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.10,0:00:26.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they were reflected in my windows.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.92,0:00:30.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was trying to get over\Nbeing scared of this idea
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.64,0:00:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of this presence in my window.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.48,0:00:49.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wouldn't say that that actually helped.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.53,0:00:50.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it was sort of exhilarating.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.94,0:00:51.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was sort of fun.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.54,0:00:59.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it was the beginning of a process\Nthat maybe is helping me.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.32,0:01:04.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The voyeur in my work is not supposed\Nto be a scary or threatening presence
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.60,0:01:08.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the way that I feel like it's often\Nportrayed in movies and novels.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.88,0:01:16.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's maybe somebody that feels\Njust outside the equation.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.76,0:01:21.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The voyeur is actually\Nwhat I am in the process.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.90,0:01:31.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["Dan Herschlein Looks Inside"]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.52,0:01:37.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Dan Herschlein, artist]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.54,0:01:43.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was driving out to Long Island each day\Nto work on these sculptures
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.30,0:01:48.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the den in my parents house on Long Island.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.28,0:01:50.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They gave me half of the room
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.07,0:01:52.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and rest of it was everything else\Nthat was in the room,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.35,0:01:53.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pushed over.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.94,0:02:01.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The sculptures are very much\Nbased on Long Island,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.67,0:02:03.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and my growing up there,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.36,0:02:05.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and my feelings of growing up there--
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.74,0:02:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the specific kind of\Naloneness that I felt there.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.42,0:02:29.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Part of my fantasy about this place
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.72,0:02:34.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was that I was going to be able to\Nstay up all night working in here
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.53,0:02:36.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and be alone.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.43,0:02:38.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But then my parents are sleeping
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.60,0:02:41.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I can't even, like,\Ndrill into the wood.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.84,0:02:46.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Realizing that this\Nfantasy of solitude
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.30,0:02:48.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is just not even real.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.00,0:03:01.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The "Night Pictures,"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.76,0:03:04.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're a sequential set of images
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.74,0:03:06.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are of plaster reliefs on wood.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.64,0:03:11.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are different from other pieces
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.82,0:03:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in that they've really accepted\Nthe fact that they're on a picture plane.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.50,0:03:31.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's using a rectangular form\Nto say the same thing that
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.26,0:03:34.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I often try to say with\Na sculpture on the floor.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.78,0:03:37.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What people deem to be creepy--
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.48,0:03:40.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,categorize as horror--
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.24,0:03:42.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's the language\Nor the genre
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.90,0:03:45.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that I'm working within,\Nis horror.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.50,0:03:47.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The thing that I'm emphasizing\Nwithin that is
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.89,0:03:50.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,desire for comfort\Nor need for comfort
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.95,0:03:53.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or even the ability of horror to comfort.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.96,0:04:03.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Before I was even\Nmaking sculptures or anything,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.58,0:04:07.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a close friend of mine died in a fire.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.14,0:04:09.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I built up this leg
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.69,0:04:14.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I made to look as if it was burnt.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.22,0:04:16.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I kept coating it and coating it
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.88,0:04:21.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until it became the flesh of a normal leg.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.58,0:04:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was the beginning of me making\Nthese more figurative sculptures.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.00,0:04:38.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's definitely fear involved.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.52,0:04:40.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a pain to that.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.89,0:04:46.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's more helpful than\Njust sitting with my own thoughts.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.68,0:04:49.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it was important to do\Nsomething with my hands.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.26,0:04:56.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's certain body parts\Nin each sculpture that I'll cast.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.70,0:04:59.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cast my hands, my feet,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.58,0:05:01.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my knees, my nipples.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.94,0:05:12.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those are the things that give\Nmore a sense of reality to these things.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.26,0:05:16.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It lets everything else fade\Nand break down at points.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.38,0:05:32.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The big mission of mine\Nis reevaluating maleness and masculinity.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.08,0:05:36.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The ability of a man to bury their own emotions
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.17,0:05:38.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to a point where they\Ncan't even find them again
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.27,0:05:39.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is unparalleled.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.58,0:05:47.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The headlessness is because of\Nthe head just being totally inverted.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.20,0:05:49.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's absolutely just down inside the body.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.48,0:05:54.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It feels really emasculating\Nin this really great way to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.52,0:06:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a kind of self reflection.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.28,0:06:36.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am very anxious.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.76,0:06:37.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am scared.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.98,0:06:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am sad.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.20,0:06:44.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But here are these moments where,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.02,0:06:47.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if I can look at that at face value--
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.64,0:06:49.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,see these things--
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.62,0:06:56.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe it's fine to be scared or sad
Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.82,0:06:58.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or anxious.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.58,0:07:00.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not such a threat or something.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.82,0:07:02.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's just normal.