0:00:07.400,0:00:12.080 [Leonardo Drew: Traveling & Making] 0:00:13.060,0:00:18.300 [Vigo Gallery, London] 0:00:20.440,0:00:22.660 Okay, what kind of questions do you guys have? 0:00:22.660,0:00:24.300 I mean, I don't know too much about... 0:00:24.310,0:00:25.599 Stowe School, right? 0:00:25.599,0:00:27.879 So you guys are what year? What year is this? 0:00:27.880,0:00:29.519 [STUDENT] Lower 6 0:00:29.519,0:00:31.369 [DREW] Lower 6? What is that? 0:00:31.369,0:00:32.869 [MAN] That's 17, basically. 0:00:32.869,0:00:33.529 [DREW] Seven... 0:00:33.529,0:00:34.360 [MAN] 17. 0:00:34.360,0:00:35.380 [DREW] Oh, okay. 0:00:36.780,0:00:38.199 I actually didn't get out... 0:00:38.199,0:00:40.549 I didn't realy get outside too often. 0:00:41.980,0:00:43.360 Only recently, I've been traveling 0:00:43.369,0:00:45.569 and moving, and taking in new information. 0:00:46.040,0:00:48.500 So, I think that if you allow your 0:00:48.500,0:00:50.739 antennas to sort of, like, reach out, 0:00:50.739,0:00:52.790 you'll find... you know, like, 0:00:52.790,0:00:54.879 what it is you need for this part of your[br]journey. 0:00:54.879,0:00:55.919 You know? 0:00:59.059,0:01:01.189 So I've been traveling a lot. 0:01:01.189,0:01:03.470 Just recently, I returned from Lima, Peru, 0:01:03.470,0:01:06.040 and did the Nazca Lines. 0:01:06.040,0:01:08.220 Visiting, like, Cuba, 0:01:08.220,0:01:11.119 and Madrid, and Switzerland, 0:01:11.119,0:01:13.960 and all those things were done back to back-- 0:01:13.960,0:01:15.610 one after the other. 0:01:16.240,0:01:17.600 It was a realization that I could spend 0:01:17.610,0:01:18.710 that much time out of the studio 0:01:18.710,0:01:20.310 and not miss the studio, 0:01:20.310,0:01:21.580 because life was going on 0:01:21.580,0:01:24.740 and art was going on within me. 0:01:30.560,0:01:33.580 The art is fed by experiences. 0:01:34.000,0:01:35.960 Traveling and digesting things, 0:01:35.970,0:01:37.630 and allowing these things to sort of 0:01:37.630,0:01:39.830 influence your body. 0:01:45.130,0:01:47.320 I know with all certainty 0:01:47.320,0:01:51.760 that all aspects of your body is a receiver[br]of information. 0:01:53.570,0:01:56.200 The way the light reflects off of things. 0:01:56.200,0:01:58.830 The way the wind blows or doesn't blow. 0:01:58.830,0:02:01.729 I mean, all these things have an effect on[br]you. 0:02:03.040,0:02:04.760 I'm a visual artist, 0:02:04.770,0:02:07.450 so it's going to find its way out, you know, 0:02:07.450,0:02:10.370 into the world through my medium. 0:02:12.580,0:02:14.700 It says here-- 0:02:14.700,0:02:15.930 to my grandmother from me-- 0:02:15.930,0:02:18.009 it says, "Towards the end of my stay in Japan..." 0:02:19.280,0:02:22.520 Wow, this is from my trip to Japan. 0:02:22.880,0:02:25.300 "I'm at the airport waiting to go to Okinawa." 0:02:25.310,0:02:27.819 "It's been an interesting three months." 0:02:28.420,0:02:32.819 "First week, I was invited to dance with the[br]older women of the village." 0:02:32.819,0:02:37.889 "Some of them must have been pushing close[br]to to 110 years old..." [LAUGHS] 0:02:37.889,0:02:40.380 "But man, they could dance!" [LAUGHS] 0:02:40.380,0:02:43.900 One of the places that I always wanted to[br]visit was Japan. 0:02:43.900,0:02:49.159 I have no idea why that was so in my body[br]that I had to know this place. 0:02:49.159,0:02:55.079 But, in 1997, I had the opportunity to go. 0:02:56.380,0:03:00.180 "This part of Japan is colored with real soul." 0:03:00.180,0:03:03.540 "I chopped sugar cane and ate pig feet." [LAUGHS] 0:03:03.540,0:03:05.400 "Now that's soul food." 0:03:05.400,0:03:07.919 When I was in Japan, I was looking at 0:03:07.919,0:03:11.010 how to make color by natural means. 0:03:11.580,0:03:13.620 "The colors on the beach were surreal." 0:03:13.620,0:03:15.580 "The water was both green and blue." 0:03:15.590,0:03:17.760 "The sand: white, white, white." 0:03:17.760,0:03:20.279 That was what I went there to physically learn. 0:03:20.279,0:03:22.379 But, what I was there actually spiritually[br]learning 0:03:22.379,0:03:24.359 was a whole other thing. 0:03:25.059,0:03:26.999 And what inevitably ended up in the work, 0:03:26.999,0:03:29.609 with certainty, had to do with some of the[br]papermaking 0:03:29.609,0:03:31.139 that I was studying there; 0:03:31.139,0:03:33.669 ended up in the piece that I was doing at[br]Fabric Workshop. 0:03:33.669,0:03:36.709 And, even though I had not come to any conclusions[br]when I was in Japan, 0:03:36.709,0:03:38.799 I knew that was a door that I had opened 0:03:38.799,0:03:40.739 that had to be explored. 0:03:41.780,0:03:44.780 So there's always these constant opportunities[br]to learn. 0:03:54.920,0:03:56.200 As a receiver of information, 0:03:56.200,0:03:57.760 I want to take in as much as possible. 0:03:57.769,0:03:59.620 I want to learn as much as possible. 0:03:59.620,0:04:02.600 And I want to give back as much as possible. 0:04:03.480,0:04:09.300 If you're open, then you can continue on this[br]journey forever.