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Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.46,0:00:12.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Arlene Shechet: Sculpting Time]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.60,0:00:17.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am going to see pieces I haven't seen in\Ntwenty years
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.48,0:00:22.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because a lot of these went to different people\Nin different places.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.82,0:00:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sadly, some of them we couldn't locate.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.76,0:00:38.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Twenty-five years ago, a very close friend\Nof mine, Carol,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.88,0:00:41.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was dying at a very young age--
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.57,0:00:44.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the same time that I was having babies.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.76,0:00:50.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One day, when it was very clear that Carol\Nwas dying quite soon,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.95,0:00:56.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was tearfully explaining to a Buddhist teacher.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.36,0:01:01.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said, "You know, stop making such a big\Ndeal out of it."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.32,0:01:07.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when he said that, I realized he was completely\Nright.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.63,0:01:09.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's like, "Everybody's going to die,"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.63,0:01:12.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"don't be too dramatic about it."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.80,0:01:16.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had come to the realization, for the first\Ntime,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.33,0:01:18.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I was going to die--
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.29,0:01:20.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which should have been no surprise
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.50,0:01:23.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but was a huge surprise, [LAUGHS]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.78,0:01:25.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,inside of me.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.15,0:01:31.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, to honor Carol, I basically threw out\Neverything in my studio
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.89,0:01:34.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I started anew.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.14,0:01:39.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Instead of being one of those New Yorkers\Nsaying, "I don't have enough time,"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.07,0:01:44.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said, "Whatever time I have is exactly the\Ntime that I need."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.80,0:01:53.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Plaster is so much a timekeeper.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.02,0:01:56.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every single second as it's drying, it changes.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.42,0:01:59.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even though I'd work with plaster many times,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.42,0:02:02.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was just starting to pay attention to what\Nwas happening,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.26,0:02:04.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I took the wet soup and I would try to\Nmold it,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.94,0:02:06.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it would start to harden up.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.80,0:02:09.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would keep molding without an armature.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.82,0:02:13.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had been doing some paintings out of paint\Nskins.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.00,0:02:17.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started embedding the paint skins onto it.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.88,0:02:23.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whatever time--be it an hour or be it five\Nhours--
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.86,0:02:28.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would make a piece for that amount of time,\Nout of that material,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.48,0:02:32.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that suddenly became just the right thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.52,0:02:37.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For about a year, without letting anybody\Nknow--
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.09,0:02:39.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,including my husband-- [LAUGHS]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.57,0:02:41.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I grew this family.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.72,0:02:46.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would put them on the various stools.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.96,0:02:50.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just saw them as living on those places.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.14,0:02:52.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so they just stayed there.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.84,0:02:57.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Arlene Shechet: All at Once]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.54,0:03:03.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't have aspirations to make a perfect\Nfigure;
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.26,0:03:07.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had aspirations to make this, kind of, signifier.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.26,0:03:11.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The real meaning of an icon--at least for\Nme--
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.74,0:03:18.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was in that it was there to keep me remembering\Nwhat I wanted to remember.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.06,0:03:27.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After a period of time, I made something that\Nreminded me of a Buddha form.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.34,0:03:32.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Very long story short, I just decided to go\Nwith that
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.63,0:03:38.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because seeking form was giving what I was\Ndoing some direction
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.87,0:03:40.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without too much direction.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.04,0:03:50.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I actually lived with them and enjoyed them\Nas an installation.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.70,0:03:55.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not going to look as funky as my studio,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.35,0:03:58.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it gets back to what I lived with,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.68,0:04:03.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as reminders of life being fragile--
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.02,0:04:08.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to have that be addressed in my studio\Non a daily basis.