A journey through the mind of an artist | Dustin Yellin

Prevodilac: Tijana Mihajlović Lektor: Mile Živković

I was raised by lesbians in the mountains,

Podigle su me lezbejke u planinama

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

i nalik šumskom patuljku, došao sam u Njujork nešto kasnije.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

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

Stvarno uvrnute glave, a doći ću i do toga kasnije.

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

Počeću od perioda kada sam imao osam godina.

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 stavio u nju novčanicu od jednog dolara,

hemijsku i viljušku u Koloradu.

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

Mislio sam da će neki čudni humanoidi ili vanzemaljci

za 500 godina naći tu kutiju

and learn about the way our species exchanged ideas,

i shvatiti kako naša vrsta razmenjuje ideje,

maybe how we ate our spaghetti.

možda kako smo jeli špagete.

I really didn't know.

Stvarno nisam znao šta.

Anyway, this is kind of funny,

Bilo kako bilo, ovo je malo čudno,

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

jer evo me, 30 godina kasnije, a i dalje pravim 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 da pešačim, surfujem i radim te čudne stvari -

and I was making a collage for my ma.

i pravio sam kolaž za svoju mamu.

And I took a dictionary and I ripped it up,

Uzeo sam rečnik, pocepao ga na deliće

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

i napravio neku vrstu rešetke Agnes Martin,

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

sipao sam smolu preko nje i pčela se zaglavila u njoj.

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

E, sad, ona se plaši pčela i alergična je na njih,

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

pa sam sipao još smole na platno, misleći da ću moći da je sakrijem.

Instead, the opposite happened:

Umesto toga, desilo se suprotno -

It sort of created a magnification,

to je stvorilo uvećanje kao kroz lupu

like a magnifying glass, on the dictionary text.

na tekstu rečnika.

So what did I do? I built more boxes.

Šta sam uradio? Napravio sam još kutija.

This time, I started putting electronics, frogs,

Ovog puta, počeo sam da stavljam elektroniku, žabe,

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

čudne boce koje bih našao na ulici - bilo šta što bih mogao da nađem -

because I was always finding things my whole life,

zato što sam uvek nalazio stvari, celog svog života,

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

i pokušavao da izgradim odnose i ispričam priče između ovih predmeta.

So I started drawing around the objects,

Počeo sam da crtam oko ovih predmeta

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

i shvatio: „Hej, pa ja crtam u prostoru!”

I can make free-floating lines,

Mogu da nacrtam linije slobodnom rukom

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

slične onima koje biste povukli oko mrtvog tela na mestu zločina.

So I took the objects out,

Izvadio sam predmete

and I created my own taxonomy of invented specimens.

i stvorio sopstvenu nomenklaturu izmišljenih vrsta.

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

Kao prvo, botaničke, o kojima možete steći nekakvu predstavu.

Then I made some weird insects and creatures.

Zatim sam napravio neke čudne insekte i stvorenja.

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

Stvarno je bilo zabavno; samo sam crtao po slojevima smole.

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

Bilo je kul jer sam počeo da dobijam nastupe i takve stvari.

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

Zarađivao sam kintu, mogao sam da izvedem devojku na večeru

and like, go to Sizzler.

u, na primer, Sizler.

It was some good shit, man.

Vraški dobro, čoveče.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

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

U jednom trenutku, stigao sam do ljudskog oblika,

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

skulpture od smole u prirodnoj veličini sa crtežima ljudi unutar slojeva.

This was great, except for one thing:

Bilo je sjajno, osim jedne stvari -

I was going to die.

umro bih.

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

Nisam znao šta da radim jer me je smola ubijala.

And I went to bed every night thinking about it.

Išao sam na spavanje svako veče misleći o tome.

So I tried using glass.

Tako sam pokušao da koristim staklo.

I started drawing on the layers of glass,

Počeo sam da crtam na slojevima stakla,

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

skoro kao da crtate na prozoru, onda stavite još jedan prozor,

and another window, and you had all these windows together

pa još jedan i imate sve ove prozore zajedno

that made a three-dimensional composition.

koji su stvarali trodimenzionalnu kompoziciju.

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

Ovo je stvarno funkcionisalo jer sam prestao sa korišćenjem smole.

So I did this for years,

Tako sam ovo radio godinama,

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

što je kulminiralo u ogromnom delu koje zovem „Triptih”.

"The Triptych" was largely inspired

„Triptih” je velikim delom inspirisan

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

„Vrtom ranog zadovoljstva” Hijeronima Boša,

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

slikom koja se nalazi u Muzeju Prado u Španiji.

Do you guys know this painting?

Da li vi, narode, znate za ovu sliku?

Good, it's a cool painting.

Super. To je kul slika.

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

Nekako je ispred svog vremena, kažu.

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

Dakle, „Triptih”. Sprovešću vas kroz ovo delo.

It weighs 24,000 pounds.

Teži 10 900 kilograma.

It's 18 feet long.

Dug je 5,5 metara.

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

Dvostran je, pa ima 11 metara kompozicije.

It's kind of weird.

Pomalo je čudan.

Well, that's the blood fountain.

Pa, to je fontana krvi.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

To the left, you have Jesus and the locusts.

Sa leve strane su Isus i skakavci.

There's a cave

Postoji pećina odakle sva ova stvorenja

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

sa životinjskim glavama putuju između dva sveta.

They go from the representational world,

Idu iz reprezentacionog sveta

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

do podzemlja analogne mreže u kom se kriju.

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

Ovde su stvorenja sa životinjskim glavama pored svetionika

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

i samo što nisu izvršili masovno samoubistvo u okeanu.

The ocean is made up of thousands of elements.

Okean se sastoji od elemenata kojih ima na hiljade.

This is a bird god tied up to a battleship.

Ovo je bog ptica vezan za vojni brod.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

Billy Graham is in the ocean;

Bili Grejem je u okeanu, „Horajzonova” naftna mrlja,

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

Valdo, sklonište Osame Bin Ladena -

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

možete naći svakojake čudne stvari u okeanu

if you look really hard, in the ocean.

ako se zagledate.

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 okeana i pljuje ulje u jednu ruku,

and she has clouds coming out of her other hand.

a oblaci izlaze iz njene druge ruke.

Her hands are like scales,

Njene ruke su kao vage,

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

a ona predstavlja mitološku odrednicu za ravnotežu između Zemlje i kosmosa.

To je, dakle, jedna strana „Triptiha”,

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

It's a little narrative thing.

mala pripovedačka stvar.

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

Ovo je njena ruka u koju pljuje.

And then, when you go to the other side,

Zatim, kada odete na drugu stranu,

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

ona je nalik stablu, ptičijem kljunu

and she's spitting clouds out of her trunk.

i izbacuje oblake iz svog trupa.

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

Ima zmijski rep dug 5,5 metara koji povezuje „Triptih”.

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

Njen rep će se zapaliti na zadnjem delu vulkana.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

I don't know why that happened.

Ne znam zašto se to desilo.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

That happens, you know.

Takve stvari se dešavaju, znate.

Her tail terminates in a cycloptic eyeball,

Njen rep se završava kiklopovim okom

made out of 1986 terrorist cards.

napravljenim od terorističkih sličica iz 1986. godine.

Have you guys seen those?

Jeste li ih videli nekad?

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

Napravljene su osamdesetih,

nešto kao bejzbol sličice za teroriste.

Daleko ispred njihovog vremena.

Way ahead of their time.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

That will bring you to my latest project.

To nas dovodi do mog najnovijeg projekta.

I'm in the middle of two projects:

Trenutno sam usred dva projekta.

One's called "Psychogeographies."

Jedan se zove „Psihogeografije”.

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

To je projekat od oko 6 godina, koliko je potrebno za 100 ljudi.

Each one is an archive of our culture,

Svaki od njih je arhiva naše kulture,

through our ripped-up media and matter,

kroz naše kopirajuće medije i materiju,

whether it's encyclopedias or dictionaries or magazines.

bilo da su u pitanju enciklopedije, rečnici ili časopisi.

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

Svaki od njih se, međutim, ponaša kao arhiva u obliku ljudskog bića,

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

a putuju u grupama od 20, 4 ili 12 članova.

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

Oni su kao ćelije - grupišu se, dele,

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

a vi nekako prolazite kroz njih. Ovo mi je oduzelo godine.

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

Svaki od njih je, u suštini, mikropski slajd težine 1500 kilograma

with a human stuck inside.

sa uglavljenim ljudskim bićem.

This one has a little cave in his chest.

Ovaj ima malu pećinu u grudima.

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

To je njegova glava, evo grudi i nekako vidite početak.

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

Proći ću kroz telo za vas.

There's a waterfall coming out of his chest,

Postoji vodopad koji izlazi iz njegovih grudi,

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

pokrivajući njegov penis - ili ne-penis, šta god da je,

a kind of androgynous thing.

pomalo dvopolna stvar.

I'll take you quickly through these works,

Sprovešću vas na brzinu kroz ova dela

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.

Postoje slojevi; možete ih donekle videti.

That's a body getting split in half.

Ovo je telo podeljeno na pola.

This one has two heads,

Ovo ima dve glave

and it's communicating between the two heads.

i ostvaruje komunikaciju između njih.

You can see the pills coming out,

Možete da vidite tablete koje izlaze,

going into one head from this weird statue.

idu u jednu od glava ove čudne statue.

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

Postoji i mala šumska scena unutar grudne šupljine.

Can you see that?

Možete li da je vidite?

Anyway, this talk's all about these boxes,

Ceo ovaj govor vezan je za kutije,

like the boxes we're in.

koje su slične kutijama u kojima smo.

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

Ove kutije u kojima smo - Sunčev sistem je kutija.

This brings you to my latest box.

To nas dovodi do moje najnovije kutije.

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

To je kutija od cigala. Zove se „Pionirski radovi”.

(Cheers)

(Klicanje)

Inside of this box is a physicist,

Unutar ove kutije je fizičar,

a neuroscientist, a painter, a musician,

neuronaučnik, slikar, muzičar,

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 kuća da bismo podelili sav sadržaj koji tamo stvorimo u svetu,

a garden.

bašta.

We shake this box up,

Protresemo ovu kutiju,

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

svo ovi ljudi počnu da se sudaraju kao čestice.

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

Mislim da je ovo način na koji se svet menja.

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

Ponovo definišete svoju unutrašnjost i kutiju u kojoj živite

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

i saberete se da biste shvatili da smo u ovome zajedno,

that this delusion of difference --

da ova varka o razlikama -

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

ideja država, granica, religije - ne funkcioniše.

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

Napravljeni smo od istog materijala, u istoj kutiji.

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

Ako ne počnemo to da razmenjujemo na nežan i fin način,

we're all going to die real soon.

ubrzo ćemo umreti.

Thank you very much.

Hvala vam.

(Applause)

(Aplauz)