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Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.40,0:00:12.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Leonardo Drew: Traveling & Making]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.06,0:00:18.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Vigo Gallery, London]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.44,0:00:22.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Okay, what kind of questions do you guys have?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.66,0:00:24.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, I don't know too much about...
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.31,0:00:25.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stowe School, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.60,0:00:27.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you guys are what year? What year is this?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.88,0:00:29.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[STUDENT] Lower 6
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.52,0:00:31.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[DREW] Lower 6? What is that?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.37,0:00:32.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[MAN] That's 17, basically.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.87,0:00:33.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[DREW] Seven...
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.53,0:00:34.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[MAN] 17.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.36,0:00:35.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[DREW] Oh, okay.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.78,0:00:38.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I actually didn't get out...
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.20,0:00:40.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't realy get outside too often.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.98,0:00:43.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only recently, I've been traveling
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.37,0:00:45.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and moving, and taking in new information.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.04,0:00:48.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I think that if you allow your
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.50,0:00:50.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,antennas to sort of, like, reach out,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.74,0:00:52.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you'll find... you know, like,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.79,0:00:54.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what it is you need for this part of your\Njourney.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.88,0:00:55.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.06,0:01:01.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I've been traveling a lot.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.19,0:01:03.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just recently, I returned from Lima, Peru,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.47,0:01:06.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and did the Nazca Lines.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.04,0:01:08.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Visiting, like, Cuba,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.22,0:01:11.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Madrid, and Switzerland,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.12,0:01:13.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all those things were done back to back--
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.96,0:01:15.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one after the other.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.24,0:01:17.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was a realization that I could spend
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.61,0:01:18.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that much time out of the studio
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.71,0:01:20.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and not miss the studio,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.31,0:01:21.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because life was going on
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.58,0:01:24.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and art was going on within me.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.56,0:01:33.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The art is fed by experiences.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.00,0:01:35.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Traveling and digesting things,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.97,0:01:37.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and allowing these things to sort of
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.63,0:01:39.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,influence your body.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.13,0:01:47.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know with all certainty
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.32,0:01:51.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that all aspects of your body is a receiver\Nof information.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.57,0:01:56.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The way the light reflects off of things.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.20,0:01:58.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The way the wind blows or doesn't blow.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.83,0:02:01.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, all these things have an effect on\Nyou.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.04,0:02:04.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm a visual artist,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.77,0:02:07.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so it's going to find its way out, you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.45,0:02:10.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into the world through my medium.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.58,0:02:14.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It says here--
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.70,0:02:15.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to my grandmother from me--
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.93,0:02:18.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it says, "Towards the end of my stay in Japan..."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.28,0:02:22.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wow, this is from my trip to Japan.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.88,0:02:25.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I'm at the airport waiting to go to Okinawa."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.31,0:02:27.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"It's been an interesting three months."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.42,0:02:32.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"First week, I was invited to dance with the\Nolder women of the village."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.82,0:02:37.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Some of them must have been pushing close\Nto to 110 years old..." [LAUGHS]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.89,0:02:40.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"But man, they could dance!" [LAUGHS]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.38,0:02:43.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the places that I always wanted to\Nvisit was Japan.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.90,0:02:49.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have no idea why that was so in my body\Nthat I had to know this place.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.16,0:02:55.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, in 1997, I had the opportunity to go.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.38,0:03:00.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"This part of Japan is colored with real soul."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.18,0:03:03.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I chopped sugar cane and ate pig feet." [LAUGHS]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.54,0:03:05.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Now that's soul food."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.40,0:03:07.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was in Japan, I was looking at
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.92,0:03:11.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how to make color by natural means.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.58,0:03:13.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The colors on the beach were surreal."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.62,0:03:15.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The water was both green and blue."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.59,0:03:17.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The sand: white, white, white."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.76,0:03:20.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was what I went there to physically learn.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.28,0:03:22.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, what I was there actually spiritually\Nlearning
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.38,0:03:24.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was a whole other thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.06,0:03:26.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what inevitably ended up in the work,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.100,0:03:29.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with certainty, had to do with some of the\Npapermaking
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.61,0:03:31.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I was studying there;
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.14,0:03:33.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ended up in the piece that I was doing at\NFabric Workshop.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.67,0:03:36.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, even though I had not come to any conclusions\Nwhen I was in Japan,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.71,0:03:38.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I knew that was a door that I had opened
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.80,0:03:40.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that had to be explored.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.78,0:03:44.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So there's always these constant opportunities\Nto learn.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.92,0:03:56.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As a receiver of information,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.20,0:03:57.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to take in as much as possible.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.77,0:03:59.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to learn as much as possible.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.62,0:04:02.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I want to give back as much as possible.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.48,0:04:09.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you're open, then you can continue on this\Njourney forever.