Reuben Margolin: Sculpting waves in wood and time

Translator: Timothy Covell Reviewer: Morton Bast

Prevodilac: Nebojsa Kracun Lektor: Mile Živković

Usually I like working in my shop,

Obično mi se dopada da radim u mojoj radionici.

but when it's raining and the driveway outside turns into a river,

ali kada pada kiša i prilaz se pretvori u reku,

then I just love it.

onda to obožavam.

And I'll cut some wood and drill some holes and watch the water,

I samo ću seći neko drvo i izbušiti neke rupe i posmatrati vodu,

and maybe I'll have to walk around and look for washers.

i možda ću morati da šetam okolo i tražim matice.

You have no idea how much time I spend.

Nema pojma koliko vremena provedem radeći to.

This is the "Double Raindrop."

Ovo je "Dupla kišna kap."

Of all my sculptures, it's the most talkative.

Od svih mojih skulptura, ova je najpričljivija.

It adds together the interference pattern

Ona povezuje ometajući šablon

from two raindrops that land near each other.

dve kišne kapi koje padnu blizu jedna drugoj.

Instead of expanding circles, they're expanding hexagons.

Umesto širećih krugova one stvaraju šireće šestougle.

All the sculptures move by mechanical means.

Sve skulpture se pokreću mehanički.

Do you see how there's three peaks to the yellow sine wave?

Da li vidite da postoje tri vrha na žutom sinusnom talasu?

Right here I'm adding a sine wave with four peaks and turning it on.

Ovde dodajem sinusni talas sa četiri vrha i palim ga.

Eight hundred two-liter soda bottles --

Osam stotina dvolitarskih flaša od soka -

oh yea.

o da.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

Four hundred aluminum cans.

Četiri stotine aluminijumskih limenki.

Tule is a reed that's native to California,

Tule-trska je trska poreklom iz Kalifornije,

and the best thing about working with it is that it smells just delicious.

i najbolja stvar kod nje je to što miriše predivno.

A single drop of rain

Jedna kap kiše

increasing amplitude.

povećava amplitudu.

The spiral eddy that trails a paddle on a rafting trip.

Spiralni vrtlog koji prati veslo na raftingu.

This adds together four different waves.

Ovo povezuje četiri različita talasa.

And here I'm going to pull out the double wavelengths

I ovde ću da izvučem dve talasne dužine

and increase the single.

i povećam jedinstvenu.

The mechanism that drives it has nine motors

Mehanizam koji ga pokreće ima devet motora

and about 3,000 pulleys.

i oko 3000 kotura.

Four hundred and forty-five strings in a three-dimensional weave.

445 žica u trodimenzionalnom tkanju.

Transferred to a larger scale --

Prenešeno na veću razmeru -

actually a lot larger, with a lot of help --

u stvari mnogo veću, uz dosta pomoći -

14,064 bicycle reflectors --

14 064 reflektora sa bicikala -

a 20-day install.

dvadesetodnevna postavka.

"Connected" is a collaboration

"Povezani" je saradnja

with choreographer Gideon Obarzanek.

sa koreografom Gideonom Obarzanekom.

Strings attached to dancers.

Niti zakačene za plesače.

This is very early rehearsal footage,

Ovo je snimak veoma rane probe,

but the finished work's on tour

ali završeno delo je na turneji

and is actually coming through L.A. in a couple weeks.

i zapravo će proći kroz Los Anđeles za nekoliko nedelja.

A pair of helices and 40 wooden slats.

Par spirala i 40 drvenih lajsni.

Take your finger and draw this line.

Uzmi svoj prst i nacrtaj ovu liniju.

Summer, fall, winter, spring,

Leto, jesen, zima, proleće,

noon, dusk, dark, dawn.

podne, sumrak, mrak, jutro.

Have you ever seen those stratus clouds

Da li ste ikada videli stratusne oblake

that go in parallel stripes across the sky?

koji idu paralelnim prugama preko neba?

Did you know that's a continuous sheet of cloud

Da li ste znali da je to beskrajni prekrivač od oblaka

that's dipping in and out of the condensation layer?

koji zaranja u i van kondenzacionog sloja?

What if every seemingly isolated object

Šta ako je svaki naizgled izolovani objekat

was actually just where the continuous wave of that object

u stvari samo neprestani talas tog objekta

poked through into our world?

koji je provirio u naš svet?

The Earth is neither flat nor round.

Zemlja nije ni ravna ni okrugla.

It's wavy.

Talasasta je.

It sounds good, but I'll bet you know in your gut that it's not the whole truth,

Zvuči dobro, ali kladim se da vam osećaj govori da to nije kompletna istina,

and I'll tell you why.

i reći ću vam zašto.

I have a two-year-old daughter who's the best thing ever.

Imam dvogodišnju ćerku koja je najbolja na svetu.

And I'm just going to come out and say it:

I samo ću vam reći:

My daughter is not a wave.

moja ćerka nije talas.

And you might say, "Surely, Rueben, if you took even just the slightest step back,

I vi ćete možda reći: "Stvarno Rubene, da si makar napravio jedan korak unazad,

the cycles of hunger and eating,

ciklusi gladi i hranjenja,

waking and sleeping, laughing and crying

šetanja i spavanja, smeha i plača

would emerge as pattern."

bi se izdvojili kao šablon."

But I would say, "If I did that,

Ali ja bih rekao: "Ako bih to uradio,

too much would be lost."

previše bi se izgubilo."

This tension between the need to look deeper

Ova tenzija između potrebe da se dublje pogleda

and the beauty and immediacy of the world,

i lepote i trenutnosti sveta,

where if you even try to look deeper you've already missed what you're looking for,

gde i ako pokušate da pogledate dublje, već ste izgubili ono što tražite,

this tension is what makes the sculptures move.

ova tenzija je ono što pokreće skulpture.

And for me, the path between these two extremes

I za mene, putanja između ova dva ekstrema

takes the shape of a wave.

dobija oblik talasa.

Let me show you one more.

Dozvolite da vam pokažem još jednu.

Thank you very much. Thanks.

Hvala vam veliko. Hvala.

(Applause)

(Aplauz)

Thanks.

Hvala.

(Applause)

(Aplauz)

June Cohen: Looking at each of your sculptures,

Džun Koen: Gledajući svaku od tvojih skulptura,

they evoke so many different images.

izazivaju toliko različitih slika.

Some of them are like the wind and some are like waves,

Neke su kao vetar, a neke kao talasi,

and sometimes they look alive and sometimes they seem like math.

i nekada one izgledaju živo, a nekada izgledaju kao matematika.

Is there an actual inspiration behind each one?

Da li postoji stvarna inspiracija iza svake?

Are you thinking of something physical or somthing tangible as you design it?

Da li si mislio o nečemu fizičkom ili nečemu opipljivom dok si ih dizajnirao?

RM: Well some of them definitely have a direct observation --

RM: Pa neke od njih definitivno imaju direktnu opservaciju

like literally two raindrops falling,

bukvalno kao dve kišne kapi koje padaju,

and just watching that pattern is so stunning.

i samo posmatranje šablona je prelepo.

And then just trying to figure out how to make that using stuff.

I zatim samo pokušavanje da skapiram kako da napravim to koristeći stvari.

I like working with my hands.

Ja volim da radim sa svojim rukama.

There's nothing better than cutting a piece of wood

Nema ništa bolje od sečenja parčeta drveta

and trying to make it move.

i pokušavanja da ga pokrenete.

JC: And does it ever change?

DžK: Da li se to ikada menja?

Misliš li da dizajniraš jedno,

Do you think you're designing one thing,

and then when it's produced it looks like something else?

i zatim kada je proizvedeno to izgleda drugačije?

RM: The "Double Raindrop" I worked on for nine months,

RM: Na "Duploj kišnoj kapi" sam radio devet meseci,

and when I finally turned it on,

i kada sam je na kraju najzad upalio,

I actually hated it.

zapravo sam je mrzeo.

The very moment I turned it on, I hated it.

Istog trenutka kad sam je upalio, zamrzeo sam je.

It was like a really deep-down gut reaction, and I wanted to throw it out.

To je bio duboki instinkt, i želeo sam da je bacim.

And I happened to have a friend who was over,

I zadesilo se da mi je prijatelj bio u poseti,

and he said, "Why don't you just wait."

i on je rekao: "Zašto samo ne sačekaš?"

And I waited, and the next day I liked it a bit better,

I ja sam sačekao i sledećeg dana mi se malo više sviđala,

the next day I liked it a bit better, and now I really love it.

sledećeg dana još malo više, i sad je stvarno volim.

And so I guess, one, the gut reactions a little bit wrong sometimes,

I zato pretpostavljam, pod jedan, instinkt pomalo greši nekada,

and two, it does not look like as expected.

pod dva, ne izgleda kako sam očekivao.

JC: The relationship evolves over time.

DžK: Odnos evoluira vremenom.

Puno ti hvala. To je bila prelepa poslastica za nas.

Well thank you so much. That was a gorgeous treat for us.

RM: Thanks. (JC: Thank you, Reuben.)

RM: Hvala. DžK: Hvala ti, Rubene.

(Applause)

(Aplauz)