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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.00,0:00:02.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[New York Close Up]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.53,0:00:09.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have been collecting images
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.56,0:00:11.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,putting things into books-
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.92,0:00:16.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,i don't know, probably since high school
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.00,0:00:29.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Before, it was more about coming across an image
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.41,0:00:31.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if it struck me, I would put it aside.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.07,0:00:31.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Louise Despont, Artist]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.76,0:00:36.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then later, it became searching for specific images.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.38,0:00:38.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Looking for specific examples.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.91,0:00:52.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've been thinking about where ideas come from,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.51,0:00:55.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what the source of inspiration is,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.56,0:00:57.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what that communication was about.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.02,0:01:01.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["Louise Despont According To The Universe"]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.93,0:01:07.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm really drawn to images that are very full
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.88,0:01:10.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and very packed
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.34,0:01:14.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I want that energy to feel strong
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.22,0:01:17.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and present in the work afterwards.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.78,0:01:25.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most of them come from the Internet.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.23,0:01:26.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some are Xeroxed out of books
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.64,0:01:30.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and some are travel photographs.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.28,0:01:33.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are chicken baskets in Bali.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.46,0:01:39.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Collecting images and storing them
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.82,0:01:40.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and looking through them,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.54,0:01:44.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's a large amount of it that's unconscious.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.52,0:01:49.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s just about looking at work that vibrates for you--
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.32,0:01:53.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you say "Whoa!" that is so powerful--
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.26,0:01:56.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you're moved by it and you're changed by it.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.60,0:02:03.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ten years ago I would spend most of my time
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.66,0:02:06.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,looking for images and collecting them
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.06,0:02:07.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a little bit of time drawing.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.10,0:02:10.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's nice to look back.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.52,0:02:11.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like bread crumbs.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.34,0:02:15.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Reminds me of all the steps along the way.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.54,0:02:21.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What those first images were that caught my eye,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.59,0:02:24.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and which ones still feel significant,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.40,0:02:27.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and which ones aren’t interesting anymore.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.00,0:02:33.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[LAUGHS]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.72,0:02:43.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is an old portfolio from 2009 in India.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.89,0:02:49.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I visited astronomical observatories in Jaipur and Delhi.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.34,0:02:51.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're just beautiful geometry.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.38,0:02:55.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a collage I was making
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.51,0:02:58.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from Xeroxes of books on textiles.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.10,0:03:04.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This idea came back into my work six years later
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.81,0:03:07.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a piece that I made for Pioneer Works.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.26,0:03:09.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Pioneer Works, Red Hook]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.73,0:03:11.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For my show, "The Six-Sided Force,"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.65,0:03:14.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was thinking about beehives--
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.11,0:03:15.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their systems of communication,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.92,0:03:19.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their use of architecture,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.14,0:03:21.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the energy of a hexagon.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.96,0:03:25.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[MAN] Wow.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.46,0:03:28.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[DESPONT] And then starting here, three hives,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.39,0:03:31.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then a big piece.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.18,0:03:34.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wow. Amazing.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.46,0:03:37.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, it looks great!
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.92,0:03:38.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[WOMAN] It looks amazing.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.64,0:03:44.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[DESPONT] A body of work sort of develops\Nits theme in different ways.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.28,0:03:46.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One way is simply that,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.98,0:03:50.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the work is so slow to make,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.62,0:03:53.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one year equals one show.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.02,0:03:55.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's kind of just the state of mind of that\Nyear.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.07,0:04:01.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am suspicious of having to decide on the\Nsubject of a show
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.32,0:04:03.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before starting the work.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.82,0:04:06.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The process of drawing is such a learning tool
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.67,0:04:10.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the work will guide it much better than\Nsitting down
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.12,0:04:12.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and trying to make a decision.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.08,0:04:26.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Nicelle Beauchene, Lower East Side]
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.26,0:04:28.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For my show, "Harmonic Tremor,"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.28,0:04:31.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm thinking about vibrations, sound waves--
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.46,0:04:37.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,specifically volcanic vibrations that encircle the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.24,0:04:39.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In terms of Krakatoa,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.33,0:04:41.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was interested in that one specifically
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.41,0:04:44.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it was such a huge explosion--
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.38,0:04:48.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the sound waves travelled around the\Nearth four times.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.50,0:04:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A seismograph--
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.90,0:05:00.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's a drawing that the Earth is making.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.82,0:05:04.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything is vibration.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.03,0:05:08.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything is made up of waves of energy.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.30,0:05:12.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Things that are alive have a hum
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.56,0:05:16.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there's a way to visually represent that.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.50,0:05:21.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What are the patterns of an emotion?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.68,0:05:29.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What are the vibrational waves of a relationship?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.61,0:05:33.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I look at the drawings
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.60,0:05:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I feel the examples that are the most\Nsuccessful,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.00,0:05:38.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it really feels like they hum.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.22,0:05:44.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That the drawing starts to vibrate in this\Nway
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.68,0:05:48.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where the energy has been translated in the\Ncorrect way.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.96,0:05:53.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's taken on its own life.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.48,0:05:58.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, the vibration of it just becomes alive.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.18,0:06:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's so interesting about the creative act
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.01,0:06:12.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that you can access something completely\Noutside yourself.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.18,0:06:16.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a communication with awareness
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.62,0:06:18.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rather than consciousness.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:19.66,0:06:21.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You put them all up and then maybe two
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.93,0:06:23.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or a connection between four of them
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.88,0:06:26.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will find some reference into a work.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.58,0:06:31.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And because the work is not an illustration\Nof a concept or an idea,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.87,0:06:33.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there’s enough freedom to say,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.44,0:06:36.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"If it's contained within me, it'll make\Nsense."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.62,0:06:38.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There will be some unifying force.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.94,0:06:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you offer yourself up as the hands to make the work
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.98,0:06:49.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the relationship you form with what\Nyou communicate with
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.42,0:06:52.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has its own voice.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.04,0:06:58.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes that voice comes through research\Nand combing through images.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.07,0:07:01.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And sometimes it's direct on the paper.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.15,0:07:05.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In terms of inspiration,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.29,0:07:10.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for some reason I had this image in my head\Nof an eyeball.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.66,0:07:16.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we think of the pupil and the iris as the\Nego and the conscious mind,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.71,0:07:19.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then you imagine the white of the eye\Nas awareness--
Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.32,0:07:24.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as energy that you can access outside of yourself.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.84,0:07:30.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what I think is the most exciting part\Nabout making work,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.72,0:07:36.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that you start to build a relationship\Nwith accessing this awareness.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.06,0:07:42.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That work isn't coming from your personal\Nlife story.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.68,0:07:44.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not coming from your background.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.13,0:07:45.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not coming from your ego.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.38,0:07:49.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's coming from some universal energy,\Nyou know?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.86,0:07:54.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that relationship is so sacred.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.72,0:08:00.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Finding what those really interesting connections are,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.54,0:08:04.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's sort of playing with memory.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.00,0:08:21.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because I have a very bad memory,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.07,0:08:23.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think I remember what it is
Dialogue: 0,0:08:23.41,0:08:25.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but then I'm afraid to really say what it is.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.52,0:08:28.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like the reference sometimes disappears.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:30.06,0:08:32.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then, you're just looking at one specific\Nthing about it.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:33.38,0:08:35.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not really about it’s context anymore.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.96,0:08:40.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[DESPONT] Should I start burning down here?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.10,0:08:40.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[MAN] Left.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.78,0:08:42.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[MAN] Okay. You're good.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.92,0:08:45.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[DESPONT] It’s really hard for it to get\Nthrough the black ink.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.66,0:08:46.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ALL LAUGH]
Dialogue: 0,0:08:47.12,0:08:48.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[MAN] Hold.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.08,0:08:50.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[DESPONT] It looks like a devil's face! [LAUGHS]
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.84,0:08:52.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[MAN] Wow.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:52.62,0:08:54.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[DESPONT] That was so nice!