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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.19,0:00:02.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(light music)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.71,0:00:11.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I think a lot about\Nthe term body anxiety.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.86,0:00:17.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think about sitting\Nin the backseat of a car
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.97,0:00:20.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a kid in like shorts, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.43,0:00:25.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you get up and like your\Nleg just sticks to the vinyl.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.57,0:00:32.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Knowing that there's something about you
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.49,0:00:34.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that might appear gross
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.62,0:00:38.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to others is a pretty universal feeling.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.10,0:00:41.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(light music continues)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.39,0:00:46.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're all like moving\Naround in these flesh cages
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.38,0:00:49.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are essentially vulnerable.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.46,0:00:52.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(light music continues)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.67,0:01:12.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot of the processes I\Nuse in the studio are things
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.84,0:01:17.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that exist, but also I kind of made up,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.10,0:01:19.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or I'm not using them exactly
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.38,0:01:21.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the way that you're supposed to.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.62,0:01:27.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I do a lot of grinding metal\Nand welding it together
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.03,0:01:28.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and grinding it again,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.50,0:01:32.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a lot of that is\Nto avoid casting metal,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.61,0:01:35.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is usually very expensive.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.43,0:01:41.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm often figuring out a new method
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.40,0:01:44.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of what's often a very traditional process
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.13,0:01:45.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in that way I think of myself
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.75,0:01:48.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as kind of a professional amateur.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.75,0:01:51.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(light music)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.57,0:01:55.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can remember being in middle\Nschool, maybe even younger,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.05,0:01:57.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like 10 or 11,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.21,0:02:00.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and finding a book that my mom\Nhad that was like a history
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.81,0:02:02.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of chair design.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.20,0:02:08.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would kind of go through it
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.79,0:02:13.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and mark all the pages with\Npictures that I was into
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.29,0:02:15.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you know, my parents noticed that
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.51,0:02:17.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and got me a couple other chair books.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.19,0:02:24.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I became more interested\Nin modernist design
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.54,0:02:29.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and through that started\Nworking in mostly tubular steel.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.56,0:02:35.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a industrial material that's become
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.01,0:02:38.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so ubiquitous, it's almost invisible.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.02,0:02:45.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot of the time when I\Nstart with a sculpture,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.21,0:02:48.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm thinking about something\Norganic, interacting
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.81,0:02:52.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with something that\Nlooks kind of industrial,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.20,0:02:57.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,something soft and something hard.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.44,0:03:03.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I like that when something\Nlooks like it's being pushed
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.06,0:03:06.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or pulled or squeezed in a sculpture,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.24,0:03:07.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that really is what's happening.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.95,0:03:10.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The silicone is being pushed or pulled
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.50,0:03:12.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or squeezed in those directions.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.75,0:03:16.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- So the hottest part
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.58,0:03:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that tip,\N- Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.00,0:03:18.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Right.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.83,0:03:21.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I think if we, if\Nwe come in straight up
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.63,0:03:24.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and down, you're definitely gonna get
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.90,0:03:26.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that hot bit's gonna really like-
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.76,0:03:28.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Okay.\N- Droop over
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.72,0:03:31.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- the more droop the better.\N- Whereas... yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.27,0:03:38.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I've also started working in glass.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.58,0:03:46.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The main difference is that\Nit's kind of frozen in time.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.02,0:03:50.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In that moment of the\Nsag or flop or squeeze.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.05,0:04:19.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My attraction to the gourds\Ninitially really came
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.74,0:04:22.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from their like kind of\Nunique warty texture.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.74,0:04:29.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's rare to see fruit
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.31,0:04:31.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or vegetable just come out of the earth
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.83,0:04:34.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and already have this kind of diseased,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.56,0:04:36.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,almost tumor like look.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.79,0:04:39.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(light music)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.88,0:04:45.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For these pieces
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.93,0:04:49.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was really thinking\Nabout adaptive structures
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.38,0:04:51.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we may or may not be aware of,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.07,0:04:56.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but are very ubiquitous\Nin the built environment.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.89,0:05:02.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was playing off of the handrails
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.40,0:05:04.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that exist in a staircase
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.80,0:05:07.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or might be the kind of ADA handrails
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.47,0:05:09.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are in a bathroom.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.36,0:05:13.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most of my work comes from
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.86,0:05:16.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,two or three different\Nreference points for me.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.51,0:05:21.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was looking at Hector Guimard's
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.24,0:05:23.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paris train station streetlights.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.94,0:05:28.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(light music continues)
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.29,0:05:32.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I was also looking at the hoyer lifts
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.94,0:05:35.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you would use to lift someone
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.55,0:05:39.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who might be bedbound\Nfrom a bed to a chair.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.84,0:05:47.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think with these objects\Nthere's this kind of knowledge
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.58,0:05:50.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that if they're not something that
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.01,0:05:53.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you require in your life now to be mobile,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.64,0:05:55.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you will at some point.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.26,0:05:59.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we all have this\Nrelationship to them that is one
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.79,0:06:04.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of kind of inevitability\Nto a certain degree.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.30,0:06:07.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(light music continues)
Dialogue: 0,0:06:09.45,0:06:14.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My dad had ALS, which is a disease where
Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.58,0:06:18.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you slowly become completely paralyzed,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.97,0:06:27.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so watching that progression happen,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.69,0:06:32.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these adaptive elements went\Nfrom barely noticed parts
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.37,0:06:34.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the built environment to, you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.86,0:06:37.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really necessary elements to move around.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.28,0:06:48.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To me, there's this very visceral moment
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.27,0:06:51.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that can lead itself to\Nthis kind of sculptural
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.48,0:06:55.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,way of thinking around the\Nway that a body interacts
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.50,0:06:57.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the furniture and its environment.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.81,0:07:05.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These stilt sculptures,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.40,0:07:08.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they suggest a wearer\Nwho's essentially balanced
Dialogue: 0,0:07:08.58,0:07:12.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on these very precarious\Nlooking bird legs.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:12.78,0:07:15.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Navigating these equally dramatic
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.96,0:07:18.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and difficult to use handrails.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.78,0:07:22.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(light music continues)
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.32,0:07:25.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot of the pieces that\NI make, they are objects
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.74,0:07:28.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we are all familiar with,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.08,0:07:31.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but maybe out of context\Nyou take something
Dialogue: 0,0:07:31.71,0:07:33.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is really familiar
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.90,0:07:38.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and make it kind of visible again.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.94,0:07:42.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(light music continues)