[Vigo Gallery, London]

畫廊Vigo，倫敦

Okay, what kind of questions do you guys have?

好吧，你們有些什麼問題？

I mean, I don't know too much about...

我其實不是很瞭解

Stowe School, right?

斯多中學

So you guys are what year? What year is this?

你們是幾幾屆的學生？是哪一年呀？

[STUDENT] Lower 6

低六年級

[DREW] Lower 6? What is that?

低六年級是幾歲？

[MAN] That's 17, basically.

基本都是17歲

[DREW] Seven...

7歲啊

[MAN] 17.

不，是17歲

[DREW] Oh, okay.

哦，這樣啊

I actually didn't get out...

我其實不怎麼出門

I didn't realy get outside too often.

可以說是不經常出門

Only recently, I've been traveling

除了最近一段時間，我一直在到處旅行

and moving, and taking in new information.

到處遊蕩，並接收了很多新的資訊

So, I think that if you allow your

所以，如果你可以讓

antennas to sort of, like, reach out,

你的天線，伸出去

you'll find... you know, like,

你會發現

what it is you need for this part of your journey.

它便是你此次旅行所需要的部分

You know?

你知道嗎？

So I've been traveling a lot.

這也是我一直到處旅行的原因

Just recently, I returned from Lima, Peru,

就在前不久，我剛從秘魯的利馬回來

and did the Nazca Lines.

還穿越了納斯卡線

Visiting, like, Cuba,

遊覽了古巴

and Madrid, and Switzerland,

馬德里以及瑞士

and all those things were done back to back--

我一個接著一個的

one after the other.

流覽了這些城市

It was a realization that I could spend

這時候我意識到我可以

that much time out of the studio

在保證不影響工作室工作的前提下

and not miss the studio,

把呆在工作室的時間分出來一點

because life was going on

因為在我內心深處

and art was going on within me.

生活仍在繼續，藝術也仍在繼續

The art is fed by experiences.

藝術是來源於經歷的

Traveling and digesting things,

旅行以及領會事物的本身

and allowing these things to sort of

這或多或少都在

influence your body.

影響著你

I know with all certainty

我非常確信

that all aspects of your body is a receiver of information.

你身體的所有部分都是資訊的接收者

The way the light reflects off of things.

折射在事物上的光

The way the wind blows or doesn't blow.

風，時而襲來，時而平靜

I mean, all these things have an effect on you.

所有的這些事物都在影響著你

I'm a visual artist,

我是一個視覺藝術家

so it's going to find its way out, you know,

我總有辦法在通過我的媒介

into the world through my medium.

找到通往世界的出路

It says here--

這裏說的是...

to my grandmother from me--

這是我寫給我祖母的手信

it says, "Towards the end of my stay in Japan..."

上面說：“我日本之行即將結束...”

Wow, this is from my trip to Japan.

哇，這是來自我日本之行的手信

"I'm at the airport waiting to go to Okinawa."

“我現在在機場準備登機去大阪”

"It's been an interesting three months."

“這三個月非常的有意思”

"First week, I was invited to dance with the older women of the village."

“第一周，我在城鎮裏被邀請和年長的女士一起跳舞”

"Some of them must have been pushing close to to 110 years old..." [LAUGHS]

“有些女士我估計都快要有110歲了”（笑）

"But man, they could dance!" [LAUGHS]

“但天哪，她們能跳舞”（笑）

One of the places that I always wanted to visit was Japan.

我一直想去的其中一個地方，就是日本

I have no idea why that was so in my body that I had to know this place.

我不知道為什麼一定要去日本

But, in 1997, I had the opportunity to go.

但在1997年的時候，我有機會可以去日本

"This part of Japan is colored with real soul."

“這一部分的日本被真實的靈魂所描繪”

"I chopped sugar cane and ate pig feet." [LAUGHS]

“我砍了甘蔗並吃了豬蹄”（笑）

"Now that's soul food."

“這些可都是富有靈魂的食物啊”

When I was in Japan, I was looking at

當我在日本的時候，我在尋找

how to make color by natural means.

如何用天然的方式來製作顏色

"The colors on the beach were surreal."

“在沙灘上的顏色太不真實了”

"The water was both green and blue."

“水的顏色是藍綠交加的”

"The sand: white, white, white."

“而沙子的顏色是白色，白色，白色”

That was what I went there to physically learn.

這也是我身體力行所學到的東西

But, what I was there actually spiritually learning

但是，當我深入到精神層面的學習時，

was a whole other thing.

一切猶如萬象更新

And what inevitably ended up in the work,

使得我結束創作的確切原因是

with certainty, had to do with some of the papermaking

我必須要做一些

that I was studying there;

在那邊學來的造紙術

ended up in the piece that I was doing at Fabric Workshop.

結束了在制衣廠的作業

And, even though I had not come to any conclusions when I was in Japan,

即使是這樣，我在日本的時候也並沒有得出任何結論

I knew that was a door that I had opened

我知道我應該打開那扇門

that had to be explored.

去一探究竟

So there's always these constant opportunities to learn.

總有源源不斷的機會等著你去探索

As a receiver of information,

然而，作為一個資訊的接受者

I want to take in as much as possible.

我想盡我所能，吸取最多的資訊

I want to learn as much as possible.

盡我所能，學習最多的知識

And I want to give back as much as possible.

同時，我也想盡我所能，盡可能多的去傳播給普羅大眾

If you're open, then you can continue on this journey forever.

只要你心胸開闊並學無止境，你人生的旅程也將永無止境