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Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.93,0:00:12.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[El Anatsui: "Broken Bridge II"]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.04,0:00:22.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[The High Line, New York City]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.83,0:00:52.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I come from a place where you have a lot of sky.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.93,0:00:56.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The sky starts from almost ground level and goes up.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.30,0:00:59.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, but over here you have to really look up
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.58,0:01:03.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To realize that there is eventually sky,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.41,0:01:06.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[LAUGHS] Somewhere, you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.28,0:01:10.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's almost the experience of most people who live in open country
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.33,0:01:13.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they come to New York--
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.39,0:01:17.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sky is not a common commodity.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.08,0:01:35.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[sounds of city traffic]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.18,0:01:39.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[JORDAN BENKE] Right?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.86,0:01:40.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ANATSUI] Mmm hmm.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.50,0:01:41.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[BENKE] So we're just going to create a little crease there.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.91,0:01:42.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ANATSUI] Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.56,0:01:43.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[BENKE] To here.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.25,0:01:43.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ANATSUI] Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.74,0:01:48.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if you push as hard as possible so that it gives...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.09,0:01:50.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[BENKE] Yeah, you can make as big a crease as you can there.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.42,0:01:51.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ANATSUI] Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.12,0:01:54.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[sound of metal folding]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.14,0:01:57.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ANATSUI] The crease actually should even be up there...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.95,0:02:00.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[BENKE] Let's see, I think they...
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.29,0:02:01.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ANATSUI] ...In the corner.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.60,0:02:04.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[BENKE] He's adding a lot of wrinkles to the piece,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.16,0:02:05.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,making more of the creases...
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.57,0:02:10.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were, I think, pretty conservative and not wanting to mess with the material too much...
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.21,0:02:11.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Jordan Benke, Production Manager]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.81,0:02:13.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because every time you make one of these creases
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.49,0:02:16.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're kind of deforming this metal.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.30,0:02:22.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hurricane Sandy came in, which basically meant we were out of power until Friday evening.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.18,0:02:25.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their crews were responding to kind of crisis stuff until the next Wednesday,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.78,0:02:30.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which is the day the nor'easter hit, so then we lost another two days.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.41,0:02:38.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ANATSUI] I came in to look at about three or four different walls
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.33,0:02:44.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And selected this wall because the other ones were West-facing.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.40,0:02:49.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And West-facing didn't have what I think is iconic of New York.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.91,0:02:54.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, skyscrapers and the lack of sky.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.43,0:03:01.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Since the work has mirrors, I wanted mirrors to be able to pick that character and show it.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.06,0:03:05.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[CECILIA ALEMANI] You see that, the antenna of the Empire?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.21,0:03:08.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ANATSUI] Ah! Ok, ok, ok! Oh! [LAUGHS]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.63,0:03:09.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ALEMANI] Pretty good, no?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.58,0:03:19.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ANATSUI] I was told that the Empire State Building can be seen in the work, which makes me very satisfied.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.43,0:03:22.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's clearer here than...
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.14,0:03:25.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, because the mirror is lower here.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.41,0:03:28.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ALEMANI] Yeah. It's funny.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.54,0:03:35.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ALEMANI] I think this work, to me, is a very interesting evolution in the works that El has been doing in the past.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.01,0:03:36.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Cecilia Alemani, High Line Art Curator]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.63,0:03:40.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because unlike other works that are very precious, and almost jewel-like,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.69,0:03:46.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This really intertwines materials that are much more industrial in a way.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.23,0:03:56.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ANATSUI] The mirrors are about the newest element that I'm bringing into my work.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.86,0:04:02.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As time goes on, I'm going to get to understand the mirror more
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.56,0:04:11.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And get to know what it's language is, and what things it can say, and what things it cannot say well.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.10,0:04:14.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a gradual process.