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Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.04,0:00:23.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["New York Close Up"]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.22,0:00:48.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["Bryan Zanisnik Goes To The Meadowlands"]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.86,0:00:51.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Meadowlands, New Jersey]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.08,0:00:56.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I love this idea of this landscape that's\Nconstantly evolving
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.92,0:00:58.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but also devolving.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.90,0:01:03.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot of the train lines have been ripped\Napart by Hurricane Sandy.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.98,0:01:09.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So there's new areas of devastation on top\Nof other devastations.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.06,0:01:11.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[SOUND OF CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.78,0:01:13.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[SOUND OF CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.96,0:01:15.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[SOUND OF CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.44,0:01:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[SOUND OF STAPLE GUN TRIGGERING]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.94,0:01:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was photographing things I was finding\Nalong the way
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.00,0:01:30.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like these needles that were dumped from what\Nlooks like a hospital.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.89,0:01:35.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Signpost markers from train lines.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.03,0:01:40.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this here is this old operator's cabin\Nthat was next to a turn bridge.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.57,0:01:43.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was where the operator watched for trains\Ncoming
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.25,0:01:45.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's since been abandoned for many decades.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.38,0:02:01.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--But I'll just go this far anyway because it's\Nkind of ruined.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.30,0:02:05.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Looks like one of my installations, doesn't\Nit?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.20,0:02:13.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that there in the distance is Snake Hill
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.99,0:02:18.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's actually the only natural elevation\Nin the Meadowlands.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.07,0:02:22.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it becomes this sort of strange emblem\Nof New Jersey.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.48,0:02:25.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the nineteenth century, landscape painters\Nfrom all across the U.S.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.74,0:02:26.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would come to paint it
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.85,0:02:29.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it was considered one of the most\Nbeautiful
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.06,0:02:31.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rock out-croppings in the Northeast.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.10,0:02:36.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the twentieth century, it was considered\None of the ugliest marks
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.79,0:02:38.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the New Jersey landscape.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.30,0:02:44.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[GPS NAVIGATION] "Turn right onto Meadowlands\NParkway."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.62,0:02:51.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Meadowlands was always kind of this transitional\Nzone
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.14,0:02:53.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between the suburbs and the city.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.67,0:02:56.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like, you travel through it, but that was\Nit.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.24,0:03:00.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It just felt like this completely unchartered,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.42,0:03:02.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unknown territory.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.73,0:03:05.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think of the Meadowlands as
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.61,0:03:07.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the unconsciousness of New York City.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.95,0:03:10.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The unwanted, or the forgotten,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.27,0:03:12.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the disgusted of Manhattan
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.09,0:03:13.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,comes here.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.89,0:03:36.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was drawn by just this, like, endless curiosity\Nthat
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.54,0:03:40.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,behind the next patch of reeds
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.68,0:03:42.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there was something amazing.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.42,0:03:44.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Generally there wasn't,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.64,0:03:46.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and maybe that's also what really drew me:
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.06,0:03:48.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That it's so much of the same thing
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.02,0:03:49.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,again and again and again.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.41,0:03:53.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's kind of monumental in its nothingness.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.56,0:04:10.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Brooklyn Museum]
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.48,0:04:25.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See these are all the reeds.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.02,0:04:27.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's why I collect reeds.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.34,0:04:28.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they're everywhere.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.52,0:04:39.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I kind of think of building one my installations
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.19,0:04:42.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as if I'm constructing a stream-of-consciousness sentence.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.27,0:04:45.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That not every word leads into the next,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.59,0:04:46.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but there's an overall mood
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.87,0:04:48.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or feeling being constructed.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.70,0:04:51.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in a similar way, I feel that exists out\Nhere.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.48,0:04:54.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This landscape is very stream of consciousness\Nfor me.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.02,0:04:55.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[SOUND OF STAPLE GUN TRIGGERING]
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.68,0:04:58.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[SOUND OF STAPLE GUN TRIGGERING]
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.86,0:04:59.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[SOUND OF STAPLE GUN TRIGGERING]
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.20,0:05:02.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[SOUND OF STAPLE GUN TRIGGERING]
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.04,0:05:05.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[SOUND OF STAPLE GUN TRIGGERING]
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.40,0:05:11.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The way it dots from reeds,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.78,0:05:12.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to water,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.96,0:05:14.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to public, to private,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.26,0:05:15.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to polluted,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.42,0:05:18.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to gated, and preserved;
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.51,0:05:21.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it really just feels disconnected.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.94,0:05:26.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a landscape that just allows me entire\Ncomplete freedom.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.25,0:05:31.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That all the rules of civilization are discarded\Nhere.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.29,0:06:02.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This idea of having this freedom to explore
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.30,0:06:05.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think is something I would want
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.68,0:06:08.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people to gain out of my work, as well;
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.60,0:06:11.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that, when you go see the piece at the Brooklyn Museum,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.42,0:06:13.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Meadowlands Picaresque,"
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.37,0:06:17.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's kind of the same play and exploration\NI have out here.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.11,0:06:21.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I kind of fantasize that my viewer is having\Na similar experience
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.58,0:06:24.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,walking through one of my installations.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.88,0:06:48.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I grew up in a place that was so suburban.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.48,0:06:50.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything was very familiar and chartered.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.88,0:06:53.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, all the houses had numbers
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.02,0:06:54.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and were the same distance apart,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.82,0:06:56.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there were only a few stores in town
Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.46,0:06:57.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and everyone knew what they were.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.81,0:06:59.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything was kind of defined.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.77,0:07:03.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this felt like a place that no one ever\Nbothered to mark or map.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.28,0:07:09.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I've always seeked out something a little\Nmore undefinable.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.90,0:07:19.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When someone asks me if I still live in New Jersey,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:19.45,0:07:21.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I say, almost in embarrassment,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.79,0:07:22.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Oh no, of course not."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:23.50,0:07:24.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I live in New York City."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.28,0:07:28.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, and a big proud grin appears across\Nmy face.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.29,0:07:31.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So then I think, "Oh, am I ashamed of New\NJersey?"
Dialogue: 0,0:07:31.52,0:07:33.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But then I go back here all the time
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.90,0:07:35.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and make so much work about it,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.76,0:07:36.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so there's maybe...
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.56,0:07:38.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe there's some...
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.38,0:07:39.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ambivalence?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.34,0:07:41.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because I think, "Well I love it,"
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.92,0:07:43.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"but I kind of hate it,"
Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.50,0:07:45.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"and maybe I’d like to forget it..."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.22,0:07:49.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I can't, because that's where I'm from.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.11,0:07:53.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No matter how many times I visit,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:53.83,0:07:55.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I never understand it completely.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.71,0:08:00.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I may never understand it,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.13,0:08:02.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but that's what holds my attention.