Wild, Intricate Sculptures — Made Out of My Hair | Laetitia Ky | TED

翻译人员: Fred Tsang 校对人员: Sue Lu

I was born and I grew up in Ivory Coast,

我在象牙海岸出生和长大，

and like so many other African kids,

和许多其他非洲孩子一样，

I used to resent my Blackness, including my hair.

我很讨厌自己的黑肤色，还有头发。

I longed for straight hair

我渴望拥有一头

that could be easily managed and brushed.

易于打理和梳理的直发。

After years of using hair relaxer,

在使用头发松弛剂多年后，

I went back to natural hair at 16 after an incident with my hair

16 岁头发出问题只好恢复自然发质，

that forced me to shave and start over,

那时是剃光头重新来过，

and it was a very hard new beginning.

一个非常艰难的重新开始。

But at 18,

但是在我 18 岁的时候，

while I was still in the process of learning how to love my natural hair,

还在学习如何珍爱我的自然发质时，

I came across a photo album

我看到了一个相册，

showing the hair of African women in pre-colonial society,

展示前殖民社会里非洲女性发型，

and I was instantly inspired.

它立刻让我倍受鼓舞。

Seeing that photo album was so powerful to me.

那本相册给了我很大力量。

It made me see hair completely differently.

它让我对头发产生了完全不同的看法。

Not just as a beauty tool,

头发不仅是一种美的工具，

but as a way to communicate and to tell stories about who we are.

还是一种交流方式，讲述我们是谁。

And immediately, I started to experiment with my own hair.

于是我立刻开始用自己的头发实验。

I wanted to see what I was able to create.

我想看看我能创作出什么。

And today I'm an artist and hair sculpting is one of my media.

如今，我成了一名艺术家， 头发雕塑就是我的媒介之一。

(Applause and cheers)

（掌声和欢呼）

I use my hair to advocate for what I believe in,

我用我的头发来倡导我的信念，

particularly for issues that affect women and girls.

特别是那些影响到妇女和女孩的问题。

But it didn't start that way.

但一开始并非如此。

At the beginning, I was just doing beautiful shapes

一开始，我只是做出漂亮的发型，

for the aesthetic aspects.

注重的只是美学方面。

I started with doing simple geometrical shapes

我从简单的几何形状开始，

just for the beauty of it,

只是为了美观而已。

and when I was posting those shapes online,

当我在网上发布这些造形时，

I was receiving so much love

它们得到了极大的喜爱赞赏，

that it encouraged me to push my limit

这一切鼓励着我突破极限，

to create more complex sculpture.

去创作更复杂的发雕。

From 2017 when I first started

从 2017 年我刚入道

until now, I’ve made hundreds of sculptures.

到现在，我已经创作了数百个发雕。

Some can be playful, others can be very serious.

有些很好玩，有些可能很严肃。

So here are just a few examples of what I can do with my hair.

这里是几个我做的发雕。

Animals.

动物。

(Cheers and applause)

（欢呼和掌声）

Random things, like an umbrella or car.

随机的东西，比如雨伞或汽车，

(Laughs)

（笑）

(Applause)

（掌声）

Portraits.

肖像。

Audience: Wow!

观众：哇！

Text, like here where I write “perfect” with my hair

文字，比如我用头发书写“完美”，

because I do believe my hair is perfect.

因为我确实相信我的头发很完美。

(Laughs)

（笑）

(Applause)

（掌声）

Cartoon.

卡通漫画。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

Sunflowers.

向日葵。

Fashion accessories.

时尚配饰。

Wings.

翅膀。

Even zodiac-inspired hairstyle because my rising sign is Scorpio.

还有受星座启发的发型，我的是天蝎座。

I'm another astrology freak.

我也是一个占星术爱好者。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

Medusa and even body parts.

美杜莎，以及表现身体部位的发雕。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

(Applause)

（掌声）

Thanks.

谢谢。

The process to make the sculpture is actually pretty simple.

制作发雕的过程其实很简单。

The idea comes to my head, I do a little sketch

我脑子里有了主意，就画张草图，

and then I just sculpt, using my natural hair,

然后开始用我的头发塑形，

some hair extension and wire.

还会用一些接发和金属丝。

I just wrap the braid around the wire,

我只需将发辫缠绕在金属丝上，

and then it's very easy for me to shape as I want.

然后就可以轻易地塑造出想要的形状。

And in general, you know,

总的来说，你知道，

to make the sculpture being able to stand on top of my head,

要使发雕能够立在我的头顶，

the base needs to be extremely tight.

底座必须非常紧实。

So if you're wondering, is it hurtful? Yes.

你可能会想，这对人有伤害吗？有的。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

Yes it is.

是真的。

But this is why, in general, I quickly undo it after the photo shoot.

所以我通常在拍照后迅速解开头发。

Most of the time I will take the picture by myself, but when I need help,

多数时候我自己拍照，但需要帮助时，

my little sister, Florencia,

我的妹妹弗洛伦西亚

who is the most supportive person on the planet,

全世界最支持我的人，

will help me.

会来帮我。

And depending on what I want to create,

取决于我想创作什么，

a sculpture can take me from five minutes to more than three, four or five hours.

一个发型可能花五分钟，或三到五小时。

When I started to create,

刚入道时，

I was just doing, as I said before,

我之前说过，我只是为发雕而发雕，

for the beauty of it, no meanings.

只是为了它的美感而已。

But it changed in 2018

2018 年，一切都改变了。

when one of my photo series went completely viral.

那年我的一个照片系列走红网络，

It was this one.

就是这个。

I shaped my hair as a second pair of hands,

我把头发造型成第二双手，

very playful, in various configurations,

非常俏皮，有各种各样的姿势。

and I started to receive a lot of messages from Black women around the world

我收到很多世界各地黑人女性的来信，

telling me that seeing my hair helped them to feel better

她们说看到我的发雕让她们开始

about their hair, about their Blackness.

对自己的头发和黑肤色感觉好起来。

And I realized, OK, actually, what I'm doing is pretty powerful.

我意识到我做的事情其实非常强大。

So maybe it can just serve a greater purpose

因此，也许它可以发挥更大的作用，

and I can use it to advocate for change.

我甚至可以用它来倡导变革。

So I decided to use my hair as a platform

我决定用我的头发作为平台

to advocate for the equity of sexes.

来倡导性别平等。

Why this specific subject, you may ask?

你可能会问，为什么选这个特定话题呢？

Because I was born and I grew up in an environment

因为我出生和成长于一个

that normalized the bad treatment of women.

将虐待女性正常化的社会。

I have my experience,

我有我的一番经历，

many women have their experience,

很多女性都有她们自己的一番经历，

so it touched me a lot.

所以这让我非常触动。

And when it comes to equality of sexes, I touch a lot of different subjects.

关于性别平等，我的发雕涉及很多主题。

Unfortunately, I can't share all of them with you.

可惜无法与你们分享我的所有创作。

I can just give you today a glimpse of it.

今天只能让你们迅速浏览一下。

Bodily autonomy and self-love is very important for me.

身体自主权和自爱对我来说非常重要。

I went myself into a long process towards self love.

我走向自爱的历程很漫长，

Coming from a place where I used to dislike everything about myself

经历了从一点都不喜欢自己

to a place where I just love everything.

到珍爱欣赏自己的一切。

So I love to inspire myself --

所以我喜欢激励自己——

(Applause)

（掌声）

So I love to inspire myself from our female body

我喜欢从我们女性的身体获取灵感，

to create sculpture and shapes

创作出各式发雕发形，

that are associated with uplifting words to empower those who need it.

它们传递上进的信息，带给人力量。

And with this sculpture,

通过这个发雕，

what I want to do is to encourage women to have agency over their body,

我想鼓励女性掌握对自己身体的主动权，

but also to destigmatize all the classic taboos around our bodies,

同时消除缠绕我们身体的传统禁忌，

like, for example, periods.

比如，月经。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

Aging, disabilities

衰老、残障

and much more.

以及其它很多禁忌。

This sculpture, for example, was to --

例如，这个头发雕塑是为了——

(Laughter)

（笑声）

Was to address the big taboo of body hair on women.

是为了解决女性体毛这一大禁忌。

When I was 15, I posted a photograph of me on social media

15 岁时，我在社交媒体发了张照片，

without realizing that my armpit hair was visible

却没有意识到我的腋毛清晰可见，

and immediately, the comments were wild.

顷刻间，我收到疯狂的回复评论。

"This is disgusting."

“这太恶心了。”

"Go shave."

“赶紧去刮掉。”

"Ew, I can buy you a razor if you want."

“呃，想要我给你买把剃刀吗？”

I was traumatized, so I deleted the picture

我的心灵遭受重创，立刻删除了照片，

and after that I started to shave way more regularly.

从那之后，我开始频繁地刮腋毛,

Even if, for me, it's a very uncomfortable routine.

即使那是一个非常难受的事情。

It took me years to be able to love my body the way it is

我花了好几年才爱上自己的身体，

and to embrace everything, including my body hair.

接受自己的一切，包括体毛。

Besides all the topics related to bodies,

除了所有与身体相关的话题外，

I love to also address topics related to our intellect as women,

我还喜欢讨论与女性智力相关的话题，

because this world doesn't only encourage women to dislike the body,

这个世界不仅鼓励女性看轻自己的身体，

but also encourages women to dislike what they have inside.

还鼓励女性看轻她们的内在。

And I think just as we're supposed to love our bodies,

我认为，我们应该爱自己的身体，

we're supposed to also own our hopes,

我们也应该毫不羞耻地拥有自己的希望、

dreams, our ideas or opinion without shame.

自己的梦想、想法或是见解。

And for that, I think --

为此，我想——

(Applause)

（掌声）

And for that I think education is extremely important.

为此，我认为教育极其重要。

This is why I did this sculpture.

这就是我做这个发雕的原因。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

Unfortunately, in Ivory Coast, many women still can't read.

很不幸，象牙海岸的许多女性仍不识字。

When I was a child,

当我还是个孩子的时候，

many women were working at our home as nannies.

许多妇女在我们家当保姆。

They weren't educated.

她们没有受过教育。

They would ask me to read the text messages

她们会让我帮忙阅读短信，

because they couldn't.

因为她们不识字。

In rural Ivory Coast,

在象牙海岸的乡村，

many parents think that it's useless to put a girl in school

许多家长认为让女孩上学毫无用处，

because they are better at home learning how to cook

因为她们更适合在家里学习如何做饭，

or to take care of of the home for their future husbands.

如何为未来的丈夫打理家务。

But when it comes to their son, they are allowed to have an education.

但他们的儿子就可以接受教育。

So most of the time those women will end up marrying older men,

因此，这些女性通常会嫁给年长的男性，

and when those men abandon them, they are left with nothing,

当这些男人抛弃她们时，她们一无所有，

with very few career options,

职业选择非常少，

because they are not educated.

因为她们没有受过教育。

And to me, this is revolting.

对我来说，这太令人憎恶了。

(Applause)

（掌声）

Growing up in an environment

在不鼓励女性珍爱自己的环境中长大，

where I wasn't always encouraged to love who I was,

my journey has been about becoming my own friend and advocate.

我的旅程就是成为自己的朋友和支持者。

And when I embraced the capacity I have to share my stories

当我拥有分享自己和他人故事的能力时，

and the ones of others,

I found the strength to advocate for what I believe in

我找到了通过头发 来倡导我的信仰的力量。

through my hair.

Thank you.

谢谢。

(Cheers and applause)

（欢呼和掌声）