A journey through the mind of an artist | Dustin Yellin

Prevoditelj: Sonja Žarić Recezent: Ivan Stamenković

I was raised by lesbians in the mountains,

Odgojile su me lezbijke u planinama

and I sort of came like a forest gnome to New York City a while back.

i došao sam u New York City kao šumski patuljak,

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

Really messed with my head, but I'll get into that later.

Stvarno mi je pomutilo um, ali kasnije ću o tome.

I'll start with when I was eight years old.

Započet ću s pričom od svoje osme godine.

I took a wood box,

Uzeo sam drvenu kutiju

and I buried a dollar bill, a pen and a fork inside this box in Colorado.

i u nju stavio dolar, penkalu i vilicu i zakopao to u Coloradu.

And I thought some strange humanoids or aliens in 500 years would find this box

I mislio sam da će neki humanoidi ili izvanzemaljci za 500 godina naći tu kutiju

and learn about the way our species exchanged ideas,

i naučiti o načinima na koje je naša vrsta razmijenjivala informacije,

maybe how we ate our spaghetti.

možda kako smo jeli špagete.

I really didn't know.

Nisam znao što točno.

Anyway, this is kind of funny,

Ovo je pomalo smiješno

because here I am, 30 years later, and I'm still making boxes.

zato što sam ovdje, 30 godina kasnije i još uvijek izrađujem kutije.

Now, at some point I was in Hawaii --

U jednom trenutku bio sam na Havajima --

I like to hike and surf and do all that weird stuff,

volim pješačiti, surfati, raditi sve te čudne stvari

and I was making a collage for my ma.

i radio sam kolaž za mamu.

And I took a dictionary and I ripped it up,

Uzeo sam rječnik i rastrgao ga

and I made it into a sort of Agnes Martin grid,

te sam ga oblikovao u mrežu u stilu Agnes Martin

and I poured resin all over it and a bee got stuck.

i premazao sam ga smolom pa se pčela zaljepila.

Now, she's afraid of bees and she's allergic to them,

Mama se boji pčela i alergična je na njih

so I poured more resin on the canvas, thinking I could hide it or something.

pa sam nanio još smole misleći da ću ju moći sakriti ili nešto slično.

Instead, the opposite happened:

No, dogodilo se suprotno:

It sort of created a magnification,

To je stvorilo povećanje,

like a magnifying glass, on the dictionary text.

kao povećalo na tekstu rječnika.

So what did I do? I built more boxes.

Što sam napravio? Izradio sam još kutija.

This time, I started putting electronics, frogs,

Ovoga sam puta počeo stavljati elektroniku, žabe,

strange bottles I'd find in the street -- anything I could find --

neobične boce koje bi našao na ulici -- bilo što na što sam naišao --

because I was always finding things my whole life,

zato što sam cijeloga života nalazio stvari,

and trying to make relationships and tell stories between these objects.

i pokušavao stvoriti odnos i ispričati priču tih predmeta.

So I started drawing around the objects,

Tako sam počeo crtati oko predmeta

and I realized: Holy moly, I can draw in space!

i shvatio sam: Ajme meni, mogu crtati u prostoru!

I can make free-floating lines,

Mogu stvarati slobodne linije,

like the way you would draw around a dead body at a crime scene.

kao one koje se crtaju oko trupla na mjestu zločina.

So I took the objects out,

Počeo sam micati predmete

and I created my own taxonomy of invented specimens.

i stvorio sam vlastitu taksonomiju izmišljenih vrsta.

First, botanical -- which you can kind of get a sense of.

Prvo, botaničku -- koju možete shvatiti.

Then I made some weird insects and creatures.

Zatim sam napravio neke čudne kukce i stvorenja.

It was really fun; I was just drawing on the layers of resin.

Bilo je stvarno zabavno, samo sam crtao po slojevima smole.

And it was cool, because I was actually starting to have shows and stuff,

I bilo je "cool", jer sam počeo održavati izložbe i slično,

I was making some money, I could take my girlfriend for dinner,

zarađivao sam, mogao sam izvesti djevojku na večeru,

and like, go to Sizzler.

i čak ići u Sizzler.

It was some good shit, man.

Bilo je fenomenalno, čovječe.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

At some point, I got up to the human form,

U jednom sam trenutku došao do ljudskog obličja,

life-size resin sculptures with drawings of humans inside the layers.

skulpture od smole u stvarnoj veličini s crtežima ljudi unutar slojeva.

This was great, except for one thing:

To je bilo odlično, osim jedne stvari:

I was going to die.

Bio sam na samrti.

I didn't know what to do, because the resin was going to kill me.

Nisam znao što da napravim, jer me smola ubijala.

And I went to bed every night thinking about it.

I svake noći sam išao u krevet misleći o tome.

So I tried using glass.

Zato sam pokušao sa staklom.

I started drawing on the layers of glass,

Počeo sam oslikavati slojeve stakla,

almost like if you drew on a window, then you put another window,

kao da slikate na prozoru, zatim stavite drugi prozor

and another window, and you had all these windows together

pa još jedan i skupite te prozore

that made a three-dimensional composition.

koji čine trodimenzionalnu kompoziciju.

And this really worked, because I could stop using the resin.

I to je stvarno funkcioniralo, jer sam mogao prestati koristiti smolu.

So I did this for years,

To sam radio godinama

which culminated in a very large work, which I call "The Triptych."

i sve je kulminiralo velikim djelom, koje sam nazvao "Triptih".

"The Triptych" was largely inspired

Inspiracija za "Triptih" je

by Hieronymus Bosch's "[The] Garden of Earthly Delights,"

bila "Vrt zemaljske naslade" Hieronymusa Boscha,

which is a painting in the [Museo del] Prado in Spain.

slika izložena u muzeju Prado u Španjolskoj.

Do you guys know this painting?

Znate li za tu sliku?

Good, it's a cool painting.

Dobro, to je super slika.

It's kind of ahead of its time, they say.

Ispred svog vremena je, tako kažu.

So, "The Triptych." I'll walk you through this piece.

Dakle, "Triptih"; provest ću vas kroz djelo.

It weighs 24,000 pounds.

Teži 10,800 kilograma.

It's 18 feet long.

Dug je 5.5 metara.

It's double-sided, so it's 36 feet of composition.

Ima dvije strane, dakle to je kompozicija od 11 metara.

It's kind of weird.

To je pomalo čudno.

Well, that's the blood fountain.

Pa, to je fontana krvi.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

To the left, you have Jesus and the locusts.

Na lijevoj strani nalaze se Isus i skakavci.

There's a cave

Tamo je špilja

where all these animal-headed creatures travel between two worlds.

gdje sva ova bića sa životinjskim glavama putuju između dva svijeta.

They go from the representational world,

Odlaze iz predstavljenog svijeta

to this analog-mesh underworld, where they're hiding.

u ovo analogno podzemlje gdje se skrivaju.

This is where the animal-headed creatures are by the lighthouse,

Ovdje su stvorenja sa životinjskim glavama kraj svjetionika

and they're all about to commit mass suicide into the ocean.

i spremaju počiniti masovno samoubojstvo skakanjem u ocean.

The ocean is made up of thousands of elements.

Ocean se sastoji od tisuća elemenata.

This is a bird god tied up to a battleship.

Ovo je bog ptica zavezan za ratni brod.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

Billy Graham is in the ocean;

Billy Graham je u oceanu,

the Horizon from the oil spill; Waldo; Osama Bin Laden's shelter --

Horizon koji je uzrokovao istjecanje nafte, Waldo, sklonište Osame Bin Ladena-

there's all kinds of weird stuff that you can find

možete pronaći razne čudne stvari

if you look really hard, in the ocean.

ako se zagledate u ocean.

Anyway, this is a lady creature.

Ovo je žensko stvorenje.

She's coming out of the ocean, and she's spitting oil into one hand

Izlazi iz oceana i pljuje naftu u jednu ruku,

and she has clouds coming out of her other hand.

a iz druge ruke joj izlaze oblaci.

Her hands are like scales,

Ruke su joj poput vage

and she has the mythological reference of the Earth and cosmos in balance.

i ona predstavlja mitološku referencu Zemlje i svemira u ravnoteži.

So that's one side of "The Triptych."

To je, dakle, jedna strana "Triptiha".

It's a little narrative thing.

On je kao mala pripovijetka.

That's her hand that she's spitting into.

Ovo je njezina ruka u koju pljuje.

And then, when you go to the other side,

A onda kad prijeđete na drugu stranu,

she has like a trunk, like a bird's beak,

ima nešto poput surle, poput ptičjeg kljuna

and she's spitting clouds out of her trunk.

i iz surle pljuje oblake.

Then she has an 18-foot-long serpent's tail that connects "The Triptych."

Zatim ima 5.5 metara dug zmijski rep koji povezuje "Triptih".

Anyway, her tail catches on fire from the back of the volcano.

Njen rep zahvaća vatra sa stražnje strane vulkana.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

I don't know why that happened.

Ne znam zašto se to dogodilo.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

That happens, you know.

Događa se, znate.

Her tail terminates in a cycloptic eyeball,

Njezin rep završava u očnoj jabučici kiklopa

made out of 1986 terrorist cards.

koja je napravljena od terorističkih karti iz 1986-e.

Have you guys seen those?

Jeste li ih ikad vidjeli?

They were made in the 1980's, they're like baseball cards of terrorists.

Napravljene su 1980-ih, one su kao bejzbolske kartice terorista.

Way ahead of their time.

Daleko ispred svog vremena.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

That will bring you to my latest project.

To će vas dovesti do mog zadnjeg projekta.

I'm in the middle of two projects:

Usred dva projekta sam:

One's called "Psychogeographies."

Jedan se zove "Psihogeografije".

It's about a six-year project to make 100 of these humans.

To je šestogodišnji projekt za izradu 100 ovih ljudi.

Each one is an archive of our culture,

Svaki je arhiv naše kulture,

through our ripped-up media and matter,

kroz naše istrgnute medije i građu,

whether it's encyclopedias or dictionaries or magazines.

bilo da se radi o enciklopedijama, ili riječnicima, ili časopisima.

But each one acts as a sort of an archive in the shape of a human,

Ali svaki djeluje kao svojevrsni arhiv u obliku čovjeka

and they travel in groups of 20, 4, or 12 at a time.

i putuju u grupama od 20, 4 ili 12.

They're like cells -- they come together, they divide.

Oni su kao stanice -- dolaze zajedno, razdvajaju se.

And you kind of walk through them. It's taking me years.

A vi na neki način hodate kroz njih. Traje godinama.

Each one is basically a 3,000-pound microscope slide

Svaki je 1,400 kilograma teško mikroskopsko stakalce

with a human stuck inside.

s čovjekom unutra.

This one has a little cave in his chest.

Ovaj ima malu špilju u prsima.

That's his head; there's the chest, you can kind of see the beginning.

Ovo mu je glava, ovo prsa, možete na neki način vidjeti početak.

I'm going to go down the body for you:

Pokazat ću vam cijelo tijelo:

There's a waterfall coming out of his chest,

Iz prsa mu izlazi vodopad,

covering his penis -- or not-penis, or whatever it is,

koji mu prekriva penis, ili ne penis ili što god to bilo,

a kind of androgynous thing.

neka androgina stvar.

I'll take you quickly through these works,

Brzo ću vas provesti kroz ova djela,

because I can't explain them for too long.

jer ih ne mogu predugo objašnjavati.

There are the layers, you can kind of see it.

Ovdje su slojevi, možete ih vidjeti.

That's a body getting split in half.

Ovo je tijelo koje se raspolavlja.

This one has two heads,

Ovo ima dvije glave

and it's communicating between the two heads.

i komunicira između dviju glava.

You can see the pills coming out,

Možete vidjeti kako izlaze tablete

going into one head from this weird statue.

koje ulaze u glavu jedne na ovoj neobičnoj skulpturi.

There's a little forest scene inside the chest cavity.

U prsnoj šupljini je mala šumska scena.

Can you see that?

Možete li ju vidjeti?

Anyway, this talk's all about these boxes,

Ovo je govor o ovim kutijama,

like the boxes we're in.

kao o kutijama u kojima smo mi.

This box we're in, the solar system is a box.

O kutiji u kojoj smo mi, sunčev sustav je kutija.

This brings you to my latest box.

To vas dovodi mojoj posljednoj kutiji.

It's a brick box. It's called Pioneer Works.

To je ciglena kutija. Zove se "Pionirska Djela".

(Cheers)

(Klicanje)

Inside of this box is a physicist,

Unutar ove kutije su fizičar,

a neuroscientist, a painter, a musician,

neuroznanstvenik, slikar, glazbenik.

a writer, a radio station, a museum, a school,

pisac, radio stanica, muzej, škola,

a publishing arm to disseminate all the content we make there into the world;

izdavačka ruka koja ispušta sav sadržaj koji tamo činimo u svijet,

a garden.

vrt.

We shake this box up,

Protresemo ovu kutiju

and all these people kind of start hitting each other like particles.

i svi ovi ljudi počnu udarati jedni o druge kao čestice.

And I think that's the way you change the world.

I smatram da je to način mijenjanja svijeta.

You redefine your insides and the box that you're living in.

Iznova definirate svoju unutrašnjost i kutiju u kojoj živite.

And you come together to realize that we're all in this together,

I ujedinite se u spoznaji da smo svi zajedno u ovome,

that this delusion of difference --

da je ovo iluzija različitosti --

this idea of countries, of borders, of religion -- doesn't work.

ideja zemalja, granica, religije -- ne funkcionira.

We're all really made up of the same stuff, in the same box.

Sačinjeni smo od istih stvari, u istoj kutiji.

And if we don't start exchanging that stuff sweetly and nicely,

I ako ne počnemo razmijenjivati stvari lijepo i ljubazno

we're all going to die real soon.

svi ćemo uskoro umrijeti.

Thank you very much.

Puno vam hvala.

(Applause)

(Pljesak)