Wendy MacNaughton: The art of paying attention | TED

Translator: Tasya Rahmawati Reviewer: Reno Kanti Riananda

All right, I'm going to go out on a limb here.

Baik, saya akan ambil risiko.

I'm going to say that every single one of us in this room

Saya akan katakan bahwa semua orang di ruangan ini

made drawings when we were little.

menggambar saat masih kecil.

Yes?

Betul?

Yes? OK.

Betul? Oke.

And maybe around the age of like, four or five or something like that,

Lalu di masa kecil, mungkin usia empat atau lima tahun,

you might have been drawing,

saat Anda sedang menggambar,

and a grown-up came over and looked over your shoulder and said,

datang orang dewasa yang melihat lalu bertanya,

"What's that?"

“Apa itu?”

And you said, "It's a face."

Anda menjawab, “Ini wajah.”

And they said,

Mereka berkata,

"That's not really what a face looks like.

“Bukan seperti itu bentuk wajah.

This is what a face looks like."

Beginilah bentuk wajah.”

And they proceeded to draw this.

Lalu mereka menggambar ini.

Circle, two almonds for some eyes,

Lingkaran, dua almon sebagai mata,

this upside-down seven situation we have here,

angka tujuh terbalik di sini,

and then a curved line.

serta garis lengkung.

But guess what?

Namun, tahukah Anda?

This doesn't really look that much like a face, OK?

Ini pun tak terlalu mirip sebuah wajah.

It's an icon.

Ini ikon.

It's visual shorthand,

Ini adalah visual sederhana,

and it's how we look at so much of our world today.

dan beginilah cara pandang kita terhadap banyak hal di dunia saat ini.

See, we have so much information coming at us all the time,

Kita mendapat banyak informasi tiap saat,

that our brains literally can't process it,

yang tak bisa diproses otak,

and we fill in the world with patterns.

dan kita isi dunia ini dengan pola.

Much of what we see is our own expectations.

Kebanyakan yang kita lihat adalah ekspektasi kita sendiri.

All right.

Baiklah.

I'm going to show you a little trick

Saya akan menunjukkan sedikit trik

to rewire your brain into looking again.

untuk mengasah otak agar kembali melihat.

Did you all get an envelope that says "do not open" on it?

Semua dapat amplop bertuliskan “jangan buka” kan?

Grab that envelope, it's time to open it.

Ambil dan silakan buka.

Inside should be a piece of paper and a pencil.

Di dalamnya ada selembar kertas dan sebuah pensil.

Once you have that all prepped,

Saat Anda dapat keduanya,

please turn to somebody next to you.

tengoklah seseorang di samping Anda.

Ideally, somebody you don't know.

Sebaiknya orang yang tidak Anda kenal.

Yeah, we're doing this, people,

Ya, kita benar-benar melakukan ini.

we're doing this.

Kita melakukannya.

(Laughs)

(Tertawa)

Great.

Bagus.

Everybody find a partner?

Semua sudah berpasangan?

OK, now look back at me.

Sekarang lihat saya.

OK, now look back at me.

Sekarang lihat saya.

You are going to draw each other, OK?

Anda akan saling menggambar.

No, no, no, no, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Tidak. Tunggu dulu.

I promise this is not about doing a good drawing, OK?

Saya janji ini bukan tentang membuat gambar yang bagus.

That's not what we're doing here,

Bukan itu.

Kita akan melihat, ini tentang melihat.

we're looking, this is about looking.

Tak akan ada gambar yang bagus, jangan cemas.

Everybody's going to be terrible, I promise, don't worry.

Anda menggambar dengan dua aturan.

You're going to draw each other with two very simple rules.

Pertama, Anda tidak akan pernah mengangkat pensil dari kertas.

One, you are never going to lift your pencil up off the paper.

One continuous line.

Satu garis tanpa putus.

No, no, trust me here.

Percaya padaku!

This is about looking, OK?

Ini tentang melihat!

So one continuous line never lift the pencil.

Satu garis saja, tanpa mengangkat pensil.

Number two,

Kedua,

never, ever, ever look down at the paper you're drawing on, OK?

jangan pernah melihat kertas yang Anda gambar. Oke?

Yes, it's about looking.

Ya, ini tentang melihat.

So keep looking at the person you're drawing.

Jadi teruslah melihat orang yang Anda gambar.

Now put your pencil down in the middle of the paper, OK?

Letakkan pensil di tengah kertas.

Look up at your partner.

Lihat pasangan Anda.

Look at the inside of one of their eyes.

Lihatlah ke salah satu mata mereka.

Doesn't matter which one.

Yang mana saja.

That's where you're going to start.

Itulah titik mulainya.

Siap?

Ready?

Tarik napas panjang.

Deep breath.

(Inhales)

(Menarik napas)

And begin.

Mulai.

Now, just draw but notice where you are,

Silakan gambar, perhatikan titik Anda,

you're starting there and you see there is a corner,

Anda mulai di sana, dan Anda melihat ada sudut.

maybe there's a curve there.

Ada lengkungan di sana.

Notice those little lines, the eyelashes.

Perhatikan garis kecilnya, bulu matanya.

People are wearing masks, some aren't, just work with that.

Ada yang pakai masker dan tidak, teruskan saja.

Now just go slow.

Pelan-pelan.

Pay attention and draw what you see.

Perhatikan dan gambar apa yang Anda lihat.

And don't look down.

Jangan lihat ke bawah.

Just keep going.

Lanjutkan.

(Murmuring)

(Bergumam)

And just five more seconds.

Lima detik lagi.

And stop.

Berhenti.

Look down at your beautiful drawings.

Lihatlah gambar cantik Anda.

(Laughter)

(Tawa)

Right?

Betul?

Show your partner their incredible portrait.

Tunjukkan potret indah itu pada pasangan Anda.

It's so good, right?

Indah, kan?

I want to see them.

Saya ingin lihat.

Hold them up.

Angkatlah.

Can you guys hold them up?

Bisa angkat gambar Anda?

Hold up, everybody.

Semuanya, angkatlah!

Oh my gosh.

Astaga.

Are you kidding me?

Anda semua bercanda?

You all are amazing.

Semuanya hebat.

OK, you can put your drawings back down,

Silakan. Anda bisa turunkan gambarnya.

tuck them under,

Selipkan di bawah,

put them on the paper.

taruh di atas kertas.

That was wonderful.

Itu luar biasa.

I mean, they're all terrible, but they're wonderful.

Maksudnya semua tampak aneh, tetapi luar biasa.

Why are they wonderful?

Mengapa jadi luar biasa?

Because you all just drew a face.

Karena Anda semua telah menggambar sebuah wajah.

You drew what you saw.

Menggambar yang dilihat.

You didn't draw what you think a face looks like, right?

Anda tidak menggambar imajinasi tentang wajah, kan?

You also just did something that people rarely do.

Anda melakukan sesuatu yang jarang dilakukan.

You just made intimate eye-to-eye,

Anda melakukan kontak antarmata

face-to-face contact with someone without shying away

dan antarmuka yang intim, tanpa merasa malu,

for almost a minute.

selama hampir semenit.

Through drawing, you slowed down,

Melalui menggambar, Anda melambat,

you paid attention,

Anda memperhatikan,

you looked closely at someone

Anda melihat lebih dekat,

and you let them look closely at you.

dan pasangan Anda juga begitu.

Good job.

Bagus sekali.

I have found that drawing like this

Saya menemukan bahwa menggambar seperti ini

creates an immediate connection like nothing else.

serta merta menciptakan hubungan.

Alright.

Baiklah.

So I call myself an illustrator and a graphic journalist.

Saya menyebut diri saya ilustrator dan jurnalis grafis.

I draw, I tell stories.

Saya menggambar, saya bercerita.

I spend time with people looking and listening.

Saya menghabiskan waktu dengan melihat dan mendengar.

And I take the words of the people that I speak with

Saya menyarikan kata-kata dari lawan bicara saya

and I put it together with drawings that I do, mostly from life,

dan menyatukannya dalam gambar, sebagian besar dari kehidupan.

just like you all just did.

Seperti yang baru Anda lakukan.

I found that drawing like this does a lot of things

Saya tahu menggambar dengan cara ini melibatkan hal-hal

that photography can't do.

yang tak didapat dari fotografi.

So when somebody points a camera at you, how do you feel?

Ketika kamera mengarah ke Anda, bagaimana rasanya?

A little objectified, right?

Sedikit menjadi objek, ’kan?

When I'm drawing, I hold my sketchbook low

Ketika menggambar, saya merendahkan buku sketsanya

and it keeps an open channel between me and the person I'm drawing.

sehingga ada ruang terbuka antara saya dan orang yang saya gambar.

A lot of time somebody will see me drawing and they'll get curious.

Orang sering melihat saya menggambar, mereka pun ingin tahu.

They'll come over to me,

Mereka mendekat.

and a real, authentic conversation begins.

Percakapan nyata pun dimulai.

Let me give you an example.

Saya beri contoh.

So a while back,

Beberapa waktu lalu,

I wanted to do a drawn story

saya ingin membuat cerita bergambar

about how the public library serves our elders.

tentang cara perpustakaan umum melayani lansia.

But after spending a few days kind of lurking around with a sketch pad,

Setelah beberapa hari mengamati sambil membawa buku sketsa,

looking over older folks' shoulders and asking them what they were reading,

memperhatikan para lansia, dan bertanya apa yang mereka baca,

I wasn't really getting the story.

saya belum mendapat cerita apa pun.

Until I stumbled upon Leah.

Hingga saya bertemu Leah.

Leah is the first, and at the time was the only, full-time social worker

Leah adalah pekerja sosial purnawaktu pertama, dan saat itu satu-satunya,

dedicated to a library in the nation.

yang bekerja di perpustakaan di negara ini.

Turns out, public library definitely serves our elders.

Ternyata, perpustakaan umum sangat ramah lansia,

It is also a social service epicenter of a city.

dan merupakan episentrum layanan sosial dari sebuah kota.

This is Charles.

Ini Charles.

Charles works with Leah.

Ia bekerja dengan Leah.

And he does outreach within the library to folks

Ia menjangkau orang-orang di perpustakaan

who are experiencing homelessness.

yang tidak punya rumah.

And he took me around,

Ia mengantar saya berkeliling,

I carried my sketch pad and I was drawing everything I saw,

saya membawa buku sketsa dan menggambar semuanya.

and he showed me a very different library than I'd previously seen.

Ia menunjukkan sisi perpustakaan yang berbeda dari sebelumnya.

So computers that I assumed were for checking-out books,

Komputer yang saya kira untuk memeriksa buku,

or, you know, looking at emails,

atau untuk mengecek surel,

were in fact a lifeline for folks who are searching for jobs and housing.

faktanya digunakan oleh tunawisma untuk mencari pekerjaan dan rumah.

The sinks in the public restroom,

Wastafel dan kamar mandi,

they are a laundromat and showers for folks who are sleeping on the street.

digunakan sebagai tempat cuci dan mandi untuk para gelandangan.

A library is a safe, quiet place

Perpustakaan adalah tempat yang aman dan tenang,

where anybody can go and find resources

tempat siapa pun bisa datang dan mencari sumber daya

and rest for free.

serta beristirahat dengan gratis.

See, the moment I stopped looking for the story that I expected to see,

Ketika saya berhenti mencari cerita yang saya harapkan,

an entirely new and richer truth was revealed.

fakta baru dan lebih mulia terkuak.

I found this to be true with everything and everyone I've ever drawn.

Ini benar untuk semua hal dan orang yang pernah saya gambar.

OK, so I draw from life, right, like you guys did.

Saya menggambar kehidupan. Seperti yang Anda lakukan.

And so I built myself a mobile studio

Saya mendirikan studio bergerak

in the back of a swanky Honda Element --

di belakang Honda Element yang berkelas.

So that I could go anywhere,

Sehingga saya bisa pergi ke mana pun,

talk to anyone at any time and then draw and paint and sleep in the back.

bicara dengan siapa pun, kapan pun. Lalu melukis dan tidur di belakang.

It is very cozy.

Sangat nyaman.

I was on the road in Utah,

Saya sedang di Utah,

drawing and talking to people,

menggambar dan mengobrol dengan banyak orang,

when I spotted on the side of the road a hand-painted wooden sign.

ketika saya melihat rambu kayu yang dicat dengan tangan di pinggir jalan.

It said "Bootmaker."

Tulisannya “Pembuat sepatu bot”.

I stopped.

Saya berhenti.

A tall, white, handlebar mustached man wearing a cowboy shirt,

Seorang pria tinggi, berkulit putih, berkumis, dan memakai baju koboi

opened the door and found me,

membuka pintu dan menemui saya,

a sketchbook-carrying, jumpsuit-wearing, urban, lefty lesbian,

lesbian sayap kiri dari kota besar dengan buku sketsa dan celana monyet,

smiling like, waving like a dork.

tersenyum, melambai seperti orang aneh.

(Laughter)

(Tawa)

When I spotted the stuffed cougar on the wall behind him,

Saat saya melihat macan yang diawetkan di dinding di belakangnya,

this vegetarian thought she knew all she needed to know

vegetarian ini pikir dia tahu apa yang perlu diketahui

about Don the bootmaker.

tentang si pembuat bot, Don.

But there we were.

Namun, di sanalah kami.

So I asked him if he'd just show me quickly a little bit about his craft.

Saya bertanya apa dia berkenan menunjukkan sedikit hasil karyanya.

He agreed.

Dia setuju.

And we ended up spending the whole day together,

Akhirnya kami menghabiskan hari bersama,

as I drew out Don in his workshop,

di mana saya menggambar Don di tokonya.

and he told me about the sudden death of his beloved wife,

Ia bercerita tentang kepergian istrinya yang mendadak,

about his deep, deep grief,

tentang duka mendalamnya,

and about this hunting trip that he was planning,

serta perjalanan berburu yang sedang ia rencanakan

and so looking forward to taking with his son.

dan sangat ia nantikan, bersama anak laki-lakinya.

Every tool in that shop held a story.

Tiap benda di toko itu punya cerita.

And he was so, so happy

Dia amat sangat senang

to share it with somebody who was genuinely curious and interested.

bercerita dengan orang yang sangat ingin tahu dan tertarik.

By the end of the day,

Di akhir hari,

Don and I looked very different to one another.

Saya dan Don tampak berbeda di mata masing-masing.

And this drawing,

Gambar ini,

which ended up in my visual column in the New York Times

yang tampil pada kolom visual saya di New York Times,

or as Don likes to call it, the fake-news media --

atau seperti Don menyebutnya, media berita palsu--

(Laughter)

(Tawa)

now hangs framed on the wall of his big game trophy room.

saat ini terpajang di dinding ruangan pialanya.

(Laughter)

(Tawa)

(Applause)

(Tepuk tangan)

So I was getting ready to start on a new drawn story

Saya sedang bersiap untuk memulai cerita bergambar baru

when the pandemic hit.

ketika pandemi melanda.

And overnight I was, like so many people, just unable to do my job.

Dalam semalam, saya dan banyak orang, tidak bisa bekerja sebagaimana mestinya.

It was my own mother who suggested that I teach drawing to kids.

Ibu saya sendiri yang menyarankan mengajar menggambar pada anak-anak.

Kids who were about to lose their routines,

Anak-anak yang kehilangan rutinitas mereka,

be stuck at home,

terjebak di rumah,

and to help give parents a much needed short break.

dan membantu memberi orang tua waktu untuk istirahat sejenak.

Now I'm trained as a social worker,

Saya pekerja sosial yang terlatih,

but I'd never taught kids before.

tetapi belum pernah mengajar anak-anak.

But the night before school closures in San Francisco,

Namun, malam sebelum penutupan sekolah di San Francisco,

I went on Instagram

saya membuka Instagram

and announced that the next day we'd try something called DrawTogether.

dan mengumumkan bahwa besok kita akan mencoba sesuatu yang disebut DrawTogether.

10 am.

Jam 10 pagi.

I sat behind my drawing table in my home studio

Saya duduk di meja gambar di studio di rumah saya,

and my wonderful wife pointed an iPhone at me

dan pasangan saya menyodorkan iPhone

and pressed "Go live."

lalu menekan “Go live.”

And what I thought would be 100 kids,

Saya pikir hanya akan ada 100 anak,

ended up being 12,000.

ternyata ada 12.000 anak.

All eager to draw a dog.

Semua ingin menggambar anjing.

The next day,

Esoknya,

14,000 kids came

14.000 anak datang

and we drew a tree,

dan kami menggambar pohon,

and that drawing exercise that you all just did.

dan latihan gambar seperti yang baru saja Anda lakukan.

What was supposed to be five minutes for five days,

Yang seharusnya hanya lima menit selama lima hari,

ended up being 30 minutes a day,

akhirnya menjadi 30 menit setiap hari,

five days a week,

lima hari seminggu,

for months.

selama beberapa bulan.

And yeah, we talked about line and shape

Kami mengobrol tentang garis dan bentuk.

and we learned about perspective

Kami belajar tentang perspektif,

and light and shadow.

cahaya, dan bayangan.

But what was really going on

Namun, apa yang sebenarnya terjadi

was we were actively looking our way through a global catastrophe together.

adalah kami mencari jalan melewati bencana global bersama.

See, drawing slows us down.

Menggambar membuat kami santai.

It keeps our hands moving

Membuat tangan tetap bergerak,

so we can pay attention to things

agar kami bisa memperhatikan hal-hal

that we usually overlook or that we ignore.

yang biasanya dilupakan atau terabaikan.

Studies show that drawing is one of the most effective ways

Studi menunjukkan bahwa menggambar adalah salah satu cara efektif

for kids to process their emotions,

untuk anak-anak memproses emosi,

and that includes trauma.

termasuk trauma.

It helps us talk about hard things.

Menggambar membantu kita membahas hal-hal sulit.

We say something in DrawTogether, it sounds hokey, but it is true.

Kami bertukar pikiran di DrawTogether, terdengar membual, tetapi nyata.

Drawing is looking

Menggambar adalah melihat,

and looking is loving.

dan melihat adalah mencintai.

If we can give kids the right supportive environment,

Jika kita bisa memberi lingkungan suportif ke anak,

drawing helps them let go of perfectionism and fear of failure

menggambar bisa meminimalkan perfeksionisme dan rasa takut gagal

so that they, unlike you and me,

agar mereka, tak seperti kita

and especially those of us who might have freaked out just a wee bit

dan sebagian lagi yang agak takut

when I said earlier we were going to draw, right?

saat saya katakan akan menggambar.

We can let go of these harder self-judgments

Kita bisa melepaskan penilaian diri yang terlalu keras,

so we don't have to undo them later in life.

agar kita tak perlu menyesalinya di hari tua nanti.

OK, I don't expect you all to become drawers.

Saya tak berekspektasi Anda jadi pelukis.

But I do know that all of us, kids, grownups, everyone in this room,

Namun, saya tahu kita semua, anak-anak, dewasa, semua di ruangan ini,

we can all be better at looking.

mampu lebih baik dalam melihat.

Because this is not a face.

Karena ini bukanlah wajah.

And when we live like this drawing,

Saat kita hidup seperti gambar ini,

we miss out on all of the depth and detail of the world

kita melewatkan intensitas dan detail dari dunia

and people around us.

juga orang-orang di sekitar kita.

This is a face.

Ini wajah.

And this is a face.

Ini juga wajah.

And that is such a face.

Itu seperti wajah.

(Laughs)

(Tawa)

And these are faces.

Ini adalah wajah-wajah.

And if you slow down, I promise,

Jika Anda bergerak perlahan, saya janji,

pay attention and really look.

perhatikan dan benar-benar amati.

You will fall back in love with the world and everyone in it.

Anda akan kembali jatuh cinta pada dunia ini dan isinya.

And after the past few years we've had,

Setelah beberapa tahun yang kita lewati,

I think we all desperately need a chance to look closely at one another

kita butuh kesempatan untuk melihat lebih dekat satu sama lain

and at ourselves,

dan pada diri kita sendiri,

and tell the real truth about what we see.

dan menceritakan kebenaran sejati tentang apa yang kita lihat.

Thank you.

Terima kasih.

(Applause)

(Tepuk tangan)