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TerryBorder是美國的藝術家,他總能在平凡無奇的生活中發現快樂元素,而快樂就是創作的第一步。 “对我来说最重要的是自得其乐。如果我自己觉得某个创意有趣,那么别人也会感同身受。这是我学到的最重要的东西。”—— TerryBorder如是说。
1.ZEST:你的摄影创作是从哪开始的 ?
Terry Border:这个“铁丝角色”系列开始于2006年,也从那时开始我在博客上发布它们。我的博客地址是: www.bentobjects.blogspot.com .
ZEST: Where is your beginning ofthese fantastic photographic art.
Terry Border:I started this part of my work(Bent Object) in 2006. That's when I started my blog- www.bentobjects.blogspot.com .
2. ZEST:说说你的创作主题?
Terry Border:这个系列的主题是给那些围绕在我们日常生活周围的小物件赋予人格和个性,看到的人会想:它们与我们有什么共同之处呢?也许用语言能回答这个问题,但想必会比图片无趣很多。我创作的一个重要出发点就是要和观众之间建立联系。
ZEST:Please talk aboutthe central theme of your work?
Terry Border: My work deals with anthropomorphizing objects. Personifying those things that are around us. What things do we have in common with them?I could go on, but I would bore you and bore me. I make work that I enjoy in hopes of connecting with the viewer.
3. ZEST: 一般来说你如何完成你的作品?有哪些有趣体验可以分享的?
Terry Border:有时点子来得很快,当我看到某个物件就会被激发出一些念头。还有时,我得举着某个物件从各个角度去观察和审视,尝试找出关于它的故事线索。举个例子:我观察了一会儿某个鸡蛋,就会猜测它是否会想念它的妈妈?有没有可能它去探望母亲,结果当它赶到的时候,她恰巧刚被烤熟?如果某个人注定要经受这些,这将是一个恐怖的悲剧,一个可怕的故事。但因为这发上在一个鸡蛋和一只母鸡之间,人们看到它就会在悲伤的同时被逗笑,是一种苦乐参半的感觉。我们卸掉过多干扰之后,便能看到角色背后的幽默情怀。我是鸡蛋悲剧的导演,所以也为它的不幸遭遇感到伤感,也曾犹豫要不要把这个伤怀故事与人分享。但是人们见到这个作品之后,就充分感受到了背后的幽默感而放声大笑,这种反馈是我愿意听到的。
ZEST:Generally, how do you complete your work(from idea to finished) ? Is there any interesting experience to share?
Terry Border: Sometimes an idea comes quickly, when I see an object, it reminds me of something. Other times, I hold the object and study it from all angles. I try to find a story to tell with it.After studying an egg for a while, I wondered if it missed it's mother? What if the egg went to visit his mother, but when he got to her she had just been roasted?If a person had to go through that, it would be a terrible tragedy, a horror story. But since it's an egg and a chicken, people see the sadness but are amused also. A bittersweet feeling. We are removed enough from the characters to see humor in it.As I was creating the scene, I became sorry for the egg/son character. I was hesitant to show people. But when people saw it, they saw the humor in it and laughed like crazy. It's very interesting to hear the reactions of people.
4. ZEST: 你完成作品的过程中最关键的是什么?
Terry Border:对我来说最重要的是自得其乐。如果我自己觉得某个创意有趣,那么别人也会感同身受。这是我学到的最重要的东西。
ZEST:What's the most important thing when you creating ?
Terry Border: For me to please myself. If I'm having fun with the idea, then others will also. This is the number one thing that I have learned.
5.有人说吃什么像什么,你怎么看?
Terry Border:吃什么像什么,这是肯定的,感谢上帝我们星球上的食物都没有感觉系统。我想我很难像个农民那样去辛勤耕作,所以我很高兴能在食品店里买到所有已经驾鹤西归的食物们。
ZEST:Someone said that you are what you eat,what do you think about it?
Terry Border: Yes, of course that's true.Thank goodness our food on our plates don't have feelings. I would have a hard time being a farmer. I'm glad I can buy all my food already dead at the grocery store.
6. ZEST: 想像与创新对你来说意味着什么 ?你觉得它们如何影响我们的生活?
Terry Border: 想像和创新是让我保持冷静的存在。思考新奇事物,或是换个角度看问题都能引导我进入自己的意识领域,成功逃离现实世界。
ZEST:What does imagination and innovation mean to you and how does it affect our life in your mind?
Terry Border: Innovation and imagination are what keep me sane.Thinking about new things, or how to look at something differently is where I go in my mind to escape the world.
7. ZEST: 对你来说什么是好的摄影作品 ?
Terry Border:对我来说好的作品是通过纪录客观事物实现与观众的心灵对接,
,好作品能让人流连忘返。
ZEST:What is good photographic work?
Terry Border: To me it's successfully recording images that communicates a feeling to the viewer.It stops you in your tracks.
8.你喜欢哪些艺术家?
Terry Border: Alexander Calder, Irving Penn, Charles Schulz,另外天下美食是在中国发行的杂志,所以必须提到的是张洹的“肉装”视频艺术,一直令我印象深刻。
ZEST:Give us some names of the artist you like.
Terry Border: Alexander Calder, Irving Penn, Charles Schulz, and since ZEST is published in China, Zhang Huan's "meat suit" video is forever etched in my mind!
9.ZEST: 下一步的打算是?
Terry Border:我想做一本只讲一个故事的摄影集,而不是现在这样一幅作品一个故事,我想要一个长的叙述线索。希望在这一年里我能开始制作这本集子。
ZEST:What is your next step?
Terry Border: I want to do a book which deals with one story all the way through instead of a different thing on each page. I want a long narrative. I hopefully will get to start on that in the coming year.
TerryBorder是美國的藝術家,幽默風趣的他總是能 在平凡無奇的生活中發現快樂元素,而快樂就是創作的第一步。
擅長利用各種隨手可得的用品為創作媒材,帶大家體驗幽默 其實就在平凡的生活中,讓每個創作都是一篇充滿故事性的照片,瞬間讓無聊又貧乏的生活瞬間點燃你的靈感。
大家好,我叫做Terry Border,我住在靠近美國中部印第安那州的印第安那波利斯。我今年44歲,已婚,有個女兒。我從2006年起開始進行Bent Object的影像創作。
生活中最重要的莫過於我的家人了,而且事實上,我的家人改變了我對生命的觀點。他們讓我的圖片看起來會不像我年輕的時候那麼偏激。
我的作品可以是我的日常生活用品。我試著去把這些物品想像成生活用具,然後再跟我們現在在使用的東西做比較,我就是試著找出些樂趣來。
我喜歡尋找一個東西的很多面向,然後讓人們從我的作品中找到驚喜,這真的讓我超滿足的。
我常常用好幾個不同的角度看同一件事情的時候,去思考著這個物品對我的所有的意義是甚麼。
每天都有些新的東西出來,但是現在我正試著去創造出一系列的食物殭屍,主題是「食物吃食物」。
1.ZEST:你的摄影创作是从哪开始的 ?
Terry Border:这个“铁丝角色”系列开始于2006年,也从那时开始我在博客上发布它们。我的博客地址是: www.bentobjects.blogspot.com .
ZEST: Where is your beginning ofthese fantastic photographic art.
Terry Border:I started this part of my work(Bent Object) in 2006. That's when I started my blog- www.bentobjects.blogspot.com .
2. ZEST:说说你的创作主题?
Terry Border:这个系列的主题是给那些围绕在我们日常生活周围的小物件赋予人格和个性,看到的人会想:它们与我们有什么共同之处呢?也许用语言能回答这个问题,但想必会比图片无趣很多。我创作的一个重要出发点就是要和观众之间建立联系。
ZEST:Please talk aboutthe central theme of your work?
Terry Border: My work deals with anthropomorphizing objects. Personifying those things that are around us. What things do we have in common with them?I could go on, but I would bore you and bore me. I make work that I enjoy in hopes of connecting with the viewer.
3. ZEST: 一般来说你如何完成你的作品?有哪些有趣体验可以分享的?
Terry Border:有时点子来得很快,当我看到某个物件就会被激发出一些念头。还有时,我得举着某个物件从各个角度去观察和审视,尝试找出关于它的故事线索。举个例子:我观察了一会儿某个鸡蛋,就会猜测它是否会想念它的妈妈?有没有可能它去探望母亲,结果当它赶到的时候,她恰巧刚被烤熟?如果某个人注定要经受这些,这将是一个恐怖的悲剧,一个可怕的故事。但因为这发上在一个鸡蛋和一只母鸡之间,人们看到它就会在悲伤的同时被逗笑,是一种苦乐参半的感觉。我们卸掉过多干扰之后,便能看到角色背后的幽默情怀。我是鸡蛋悲剧的导演,所以也为它的不幸遭遇感到伤感,也曾犹豫要不要把这个伤怀故事与人分享。但是人们见到这个作品之后,就充分感受到了背后的幽默感而放声大笑,这种反馈是我愿意听到的。
ZEST:Generally, how do you complete your work(from idea to finished) ? Is there any interesting experience to share?
Terry Border: Sometimes an idea comes quickly, when I see an object, it reminds me of something. Other times, I hold the object and study it from all angles. I try to find a story to tell with it.After studying an egg for a while, I wondered if it missed it's mother? What if the egg went to visit his mother, but when he got to her she had just been roasted?If a person had to go through that, it would be a terrible tragedy, a horror story. But since it's an egg and a chicken, people see the sadness but are amused also. A bittersweet feeling. We are removed enough from the characters to see humor in it.As I was creating the scene, I became sorry for the egg/son character. I was hesitant to show people. But when people saw it, they saw the humor in it and laughed like crazy. It's very interesting to hear the reactions of people.
4. ZEST: 你完成作品的过程中最关键的是什么?
Terry Border:对我来说最重要的是自得其乐。如果我自己觉得某个创意有趣,那么别人也会感同身受。这是我学到的最重要的东西。
ZEST:What's the most important thing when you creating ?
Terry Border: For me to please myself. If I'm having fun with the idea, then others will also. This is the number one thing that I have learned.
5.有人说吃什么像什么,你怎么看?
Terry Border:吃什么像什么,这是肯定的,感谢上帝我们星球上的食物都没有感觉系统。我想我很难像个农民那样去辛勤耕作,所以我很高兴能在食品店里买到所有已经驾鹤西归的食物们。
ZEST:Someone said that you are what you eat,what do you think about it?
Terry Border: Yes, of course that's true.Thank goodness our food on our plates don't have feelings. I would have a hard time being a farmer. I'm glad I can buy all my food already dead at the grocery store.
6. ZEST: 想像与创新对你来说意味着什么 ?你觉得它们如何影响我们的生活?
Terry Border: 想像和创新是让我保持冷静的存在。思考新奇事物,或是换个角度看问题都能引导我进入自己的意识领域,成功逃离现实世界。
ZEST:What does imagination and innovation mean to you and how does it affect our life in your mind?
Terry Border: Innovation and imagination are what keep me sane.Thinking about new things, or how to look at something differently is where I go in my mind to escape the world.
7. ZEST: 对你来说什么是好的摄影作品 ?
Terry Border:对我来说好的作品是通过纪录客观事物实现与观众的心灵对接,
,好作品能让人流连忘返。
ZEST:What is good photographic work?
Terry Border: To me it's successfully recording images that communicates a feeling to the viewer.It stops you in your tracks.
8.你喜欢哪些艺术家?
Terry Border: Alexander Calder, Irving Penn, Charles Schulz,另外天下美食是在中国发行的杂志,所以必须提到的是张洹的“肉装”视频艺术,一直令我印象深刻。
ZEST:Give us some names of the artist you like.
Terry Border: Alexander Calder, Irving Penn, Charles Schulz, and since ZEST is published in China, Zhang Huan's "meat suit" video is forever etched in my mind!
9.ZEST: 下一步的打算是?
Terry Border:我想做一本只讲一个故事的摄影集,而不是现在这样一幅作品一个故事,我想要一个长的叙述线索。希望在这一年里我能开始制作这本集子。
ZEST:What is your next step?
Terry Border: I want to do a book which deals with one story all the way through instead of a different thing on each page. I want a long narrative. I hopefully will get to start on that in the coming year.
TerryBorder是美國的藝術家,幽默風趣的他總是能 在平凡無奇的生活中發現快樂元素,而快樂就是創作的第一步。
擅長利用各種隨手可得的用品為創作媒材,帶大家體驗幽默 其實就在平凡的生活中,讓每個創作都是一篇充滿故事性的照片,瞬間讓無聊又貧乏的生活瞬間點燃你的靈感。
大家好,我叫做Terry Border,我住在靠近美國中部印第安那州的印第安那波利斯。我今年44歲,已婚,有個女兒。我從2006年起開始進行Bent Object的影像創作。
生活中最重要的莫過於我的家人了,而且事實上,我的家人改變了我對生命的觀點。他們讓我的圖片看起來會不像我年輕的時候那麼偏激。
我的作品可以是我的日常生活用品。我試著去把這些物品想像成生活用具,然後再跟我們現在在使用的東西做比較,我就是試著找出些樂趣來。
我喜歡尋找一個東西的很多面向,然後讓人們從我的作品中找到驚喜,這真的讓我超滿足的。
我常常用好幾個不同的角度看同一件事情的時候,去思考著這個物品對我的所有的意義是甚麼。
每天都有些新的東西出來,但是現在我正試著去創造出一系列的食物殭屍,主題是「食物吃食物」。