doesn't mean it's not there."

俗語有云：「儘管你看不到一件事物，

My work is -- it's a reflection of myself.

並不代表它不存在。」

What I wanted to do is to

我的作品，是我內心的反映。

show the world that the little things

我想做到的

can be the biggest things.

是讓世人明白，微不足道的事物

We all seem to think that,

也可以是大有作為的。

you know, if we look down on the ground, there's nothing there.

普遍的想法是

And we use the word "nothing."

如果我們望望地上，看不到甚麼

Nothing doesn't exist, because there is always something.

我們很自然就用「空無一物」來形容。

My mother told me that, when I was a child,

但「空無一物」並不存在，因為那裡總有一點甚麼。

that I should always respect the little things.

小時候，我媽媽告訴我

What made me do this work? I shall go into my story.

要時刻尊重微小的事物。

This all started when I was age five.

是甚麼令我開始藝術創作呢？我應該從我的故事說起。

What made me do it? At school, I will admit this:

一切得從我五歲時說起。

academically, I couldn't express myself.

是其麼令我開始呢？我得承認，是在學校裡，

So I was, more or less, classed as "nothing."

我無法用學業成績表現自己。

My world was seen as less.

所以我某程度上被歸類為「甚麼也不是」。

So I decided I didn't really want to be a part of that world.

我的世界被認為有所不足。

I thought, I need to retreat

於是我決定我不想成為那個世界的一部份。

into something else.

我想，我要逃到

So when my mother used to take me to school,

另一個世界裡。

she thought I was at school,

從前是我媽帶我上學的，

and I used to do a U-turn, when her back was turned,

她總以為我在學校裹，

and run off and hide in the shed at the back of the garden.

其實我總會在她轉身後來個急轉彎，

Now, the one time I was in the shed,

跑到後園，躲到小木棚裡。

and my mother suspected something,

記得有一次我躲在木棚裡時，

thinking I was at school.

我媽開始懷疑，

My mother was like the woman in Tom and Jerry.

我究竟是否真的在學校。

So you'd just see her feet.

我媽就像卡通《猫和老鼠》裡那個女人。

(Laughter)

你只能看到她的雙腳。

So I was hiding in the shed, like that.

（笑聲）

And all of a sudden ...

當時我正躲在木棚裡，

And then I saw her legs.

突然間......

And then she said -- grabbed me like that, because my mother was quite big --

我看到她的雙腳。

and she lifted me up and she says,

然後她說（她像這樣抓著我，因為她個子挺高大的）

"How come you're not at school?"

她把我揪起，對我說：

I told her I couldn't face it because the way

「為甚麼你沒有上學？」

the teacher was treating me, ridiculing me,

我告訴她這是因為我無法面對

and using me as an example of failure.

老師對待我的態度，她們總是在刁難我，

So I told her.

並以我作為失敗的例子。

At that age, obviously, I couldn't express it that way,

我這樣對她說。

but I told her I didn't feel right.

當然，那個年紀的我不懂得這樣表達出來

And then she just said, "You're going back to school tomorrow."

我只是告訴她我覺得不對勁。

And walked off. And I didn't expect that,

然後她說：「你明天給我回到學校去。」

because I expected one of these ...

說完便走開了。這跟我預期的很不一樣。

But I didn't get it.

我以為會她會這樣對我......(打屁股)

So I'm sitting there thinking.

可是她沒有。

And as I looked down on the ground,

於是我坐在那裡思考。

I noticed there was some ants running around.

正當我低頭看著地上時，

And I went into this little fantasy world.

我留意到有些螞蟻在到處跑。

And I thought,

於是我走進這個細小的幻想世界裡。

"These ants, are they looking for the queen ant?

我想，

Or do they need somewhere to live?"

「這些螞蟻，牠們在尋找蟻后嗎？

So I thought "Perhaps,

抑或牠們只是需要一個棲息的地方？」

if I made these ants some apartments,

於是我想：「或許，

they'll move in."

我若為這些蟻造一些公寓，

(Laughter)

牠們會搬進去。」

So I did.

（笑聲）

And how I set about that, I got some splinters of wood.

而我真的這樣做了。

And I sliced the little splinters of wood with a broken shard of glass,

開始時，我先找來一些碎木片。

constructed this little apartment.

然後我用一片玻璃碎把木片削薄。

Well it looked like a little shanty shed when I'd finished.

建造成一座小小的公寓。

But I thought, perhaps the ant won't know, it'll probably move in.

完成後，它看起來就像一間簡陋的小木屋。

And so they did.

但我心想，或許螞蟻們不會知道，而願意遷入。

That was a bit crude, at the time. And I made all these little apartments

而牠們真的搬進去。

and little merry-go-rounds, seesaws and swings, little ladders.

那時的作品有點粗糙，但我還是造了很多小公寓，

And then I encouraged the ants to come 'round by putting sugar and things like that.

還有小型的旋轉木馬、蹺蹺板、鞦韆和梯子。

And then I sat down and all the ants came along.

然後我放置糖粒之類的東西，鼓勵螞蟻們造訪

And all I could hear was "Is this for us?"

接著我坐下來，看著螞蟻開始聚集。

(Laughter)

我彷彿聽到：「這些是為我們造的嗎？」

And I say, "Yes, they're all for you."

（笑聲）

And they moved in, and decided not to pay me any rent.

我說：「是的，全都是給你們造的。」

(Laughter)

於是牠們搬進去，還決定不付我任何租金。

And from there I was watching this little world.

（笑聲）

It became part of me.

我看著這個微小的世界，

When I discovered that I had this gift,

它成為了我的一部份。

I wanted to experiment with this world

當我發現自己有這種天賦，

that we can't see.

我便想用這個我們看不到的世界

So I realized that there was more to life

來作試驗。

than just everything that we see around us that's huge.

所以我意識到，生命不只局限於

So I started to educate myself on this molecular level.

我們週遭一切看到的、巨大的事物。

And as I got older, I continued. I showed my mother.

於是我開始在這種分子的層面上教育自己。

My mother told me to take it smaller.

我長大後一直繼續著。當我展示作品給我媽看時，

Now I shall show you something here.

她叫我把它們弄得更小。

And I'll explain.

現在我先給你們看一些東西，

As you can see,

然後我再解釋。

that's a pinhead.

你可以看到，

(Laughter)

這是一個釘頭

(Applause)

(笑聲)

Now that is called the Huf Haus.

（掌聲）

The gentleman who commissioned me to do this

這間房子叫做Huf宅

was a gentleman called Peter Huf.

委托我創作這件作品的

And he says to me "Willard, can you put my house on a pinhead?"

是一位叫 Peter Huf 的先生。

(Laughter)

他對我說：「Willard，你能夠把我的房子放到釘頭上嗎？」

So I say, "How are you going to fit in there?"

（笑聲）

(Laughter)

於是我說：「你怎樣擠到裡面去呢？」

And then he said to me,

（笑聲）

"I don't believe you can do it. Can you really do it?"

然後他對我說，

And I says, "Well, try me."

「我不相信你能做到。你真的能夠做到嗎？」

And then he said, "But I don't believe that you can do this." So I said, "OK."

我回答說：「那就讓我試試看啊。」

So, to cut a long story short,

他說：「我還是不相信你能做得到。」我答道：「那好吧。」

I went home, went underneath the microscope,

總之，長話短說，

and I crushed up a piece of glass,

我回到家，在顯微鏡底下，

crushed it up.

把一塊玻璃

And underneath the microscope

徹底壓碎。

there were splinters of glass.

在顯微鏡下，

Some of them were quite jagged.

這些玻璃碎片

So I was crushing up these pieces of glass,

當中有些呈鋸齒狀。

which, as you can see,

我壓碎的這些玻璃，

that's the actual frame of the house.

你可以看到它們

And the actual roof is made up of a fiber,

最後成為了房子的框架。

which I found in my sister's old teddy bear.

而屋頂則是用一根纖維做成，

(Laughter)

來自我妹妹的一隻舊玩具熊。

So I got the teddy bear and I said,

（笑聲）

"Do you mind if I pull out one of your fibers?"

我拿起玩具熊，對它說，

So I did.

「你介意我拔走一根你身上的纖維嗎？」

And I looked at it beneath the microscope. And some of it was flat.

然後就拔了。

So I decided to slice these up

我把它放到顯微鏡下看，有部份是平坦的。

with the tool that I make

於是我決定把它切片

by -- I sharpen the end of a needle into a blade.

用的是我自己製造的一把工具

And then I actually

--一把用針的未端削尖成刀鋒。

slow down my whole nervous system.

然後我真的

And then I work between my heartbeat,

把整個人的神經系統放慢

I have one-and-a-half seconds

並在心跳與心跳間工作

to actually move.

我有一秒半的時間

And at the same time I have to watch I don't inhale

去動手

my own work, at the same time.

同時我要小心不吸入

(Laughter)

自己的作品

(Applause)

(笑聲)

Because that has happened to me.

(掌聲)

(Laughter)

因為那曾在我身上發生過。

So what I did, like I said, come back to the glass.

(笑聲)

I found these little bits of glass.

言歸正傳，說回那些玻璃。

And I had to make them square.

我找來這些玻璃碎

So I'm thinking "How can I do this?"

還得把它們弄得方方正正。

So what I did, I got an oilstone. Broke the edge of an oilstone off.

我當時想:「我如何才能做到呢?」

And what I did, I took pieces of glass. And I started to rub them.

於是我找來一塊磨刀石，把邊角弄了一小片下來，

I used a little tweezer which I made from a hair clip.

然後我拿起玻璃碎在上面打磨，

And I built rubber around the end of the tweezer so it wouldn't crush the glass.

我用的是一把由髮夾改造成的鑷子

And then I started rubbing, very very gently,

鑷子的未端用橡膠包著,以防它把玻璃壓壞

till some of the edges were quite square. And then I constructed it.

然後我開始輕輕地打磨

And how I constructed it,

直到邊位變得方正起來。然後，我會開始構造房子。½

is by making grooves in the top of the pinhead.

構建的方法

And then pushing the glass in with its own friction.

是先在釘頭上弄出坑紋

And as I was doing it, what happened?

然後利用玻璃本身的摩擦力把它推進坑裡

The instrument that I used turned into a catapult.

當我這樣做時，發生了甚麼事呢?

And it went like this ...

我用的工具成了投石器

And then that was it.

屋子像這樣被彈走...

(Laughter)

就這樣

Gone.

(笑聲)

So I'm thinking, "Mr. Huf isn't going to be very happy

一去不回

when I told him his house has gone to another,

我心想:「Huf先生一定不會太高興

into the atmosphere somewhere."

要是我告訴他他的房子

So to cut the story short,

一飛沖天去了

I decided that I had to go back and do it.

長話短說

So I found some more. And I decided to, sort of,

我決定重頭開始

construct it very, very slowly,

於是我找來更多材料。今次我決定

holding my breath, working between my heartbeat,

很慢很慢地構建它

and making sure everything is leveled.

屏息靜氣，小心亦亦地工作

Because it's such a small sculpture,

並確保一切都四平八穩。

nothing can go wrong.

這個雕塑太細小了

And I decided to build it up.

實在不容有失

Then I used fibers out of my jumper,

然後我決定著手搭建這屋子

which I held and stretched.

我拿毛衣上的纖維

And made the beams going around the house.

把它們拉直

And the actual windows and the balcony

弄成房子外圍的樑

had to be sort of constructed.

原屋的窗戶和露台

I used a money spider's web

也需要構造出來

to actually attach certain things,

我用了一隻金錢蜘蛛的網

which sent me insane.

去作固定用途

But I managed to do it.

這差點沒把我弄瘋

And when I finished it, I came back the next day.

不過我還是做到了

I noticed that the house was occupied.

完成後的第二天，我回去一看

Have we ever heard of a dust mite?

發現那小屋已經有住客了

Darren dust mite and his family moved in.

你們認識一隻塵蹣嗎?

(Laughter)

塵蹣Darren舉家搬進來了

So basically I'd completed the house.

(笑聲)

And there you are.

基本上，我完成了那棟房子

(Applause)

就在你們眼前

(Laughter)

(掌聲)

Right. As you can see,

(笑聲)

Bart Simpson is having a little argument.

好，如你所見

I think they're arguing about the space on the pin.

Bart Simpson 正和它老爸爭執

There's not enough room for the two of them.

我想他們在爭論針頭上的空間

So I didn't think he was going to throw Bart off.

不夠容納他們兩個

I think he was just warning him actually.

我不認為Homer真的會把Bart扔下去

But this one was made out of a nylon tag

我想他只是想警告一下他而已

out of my shirt.

不過這件作品是用我恤衫上

What I did, I plucked the tag out

的尼龍標籤做的

and put it underneath the microscope.

我把標籤拔出來

I used the needle which has got a slight blade on the end.

放到顯微镜底下

Can anybody see the blade on the end of that needle?

我用那根帶刀锋的针

Audience: No.

有誰能看到針上的刀鋒嗎？

WW: So what I did is the same process where I

觀眾：不能

just kind of hold my breath

我用的是相同的方法

and just work away very, very slowly,

就是屏息靜氣

manipulating the plastic, cutting it, because it behaves different.

慢慢地，逐步地

Whenever you work on that level, things behave different.

擺弄、切割塑料。因为它表現不同

Because it's on this molecular level things change

當你在那種層面工作，事物會表現很截然不同。

and they act different.

因為在這種分子層面，一切事物都會改變

And sometimes they turn into little catapults and things go up in the air.

和表現不同。

And, you know, all different things happen.

有時它們會變成小投石器，把東西射到空中

But I had to make a little barrier, going around it, out of cellophane,

各種不同的事都會發生

to stop it moving.

我要用玻璃紙做了一個屏障圍著它

Then static electricity set in.

令它不會亂動

And it went ...

然后便到靜電出場了。

And I'm trying to remove it. And the static is interfering with everything.

它像這樣......

So there is sweat dripping off my head,

然后我嘗試弄走它，但靜電總和我對著幹。

because I have to carve Homer Simpson like that, in that position.

汗水從我的頭上滴下來

And after I've cut out the shape,

因为我要把Homer Simpson雕成那样，在那個位置

then I have to make sure that there is room for Bart's neck.

在我剪出那個形狀後

So after I've done the same thing,

還要確保有空問容納Bart的頸

then I have to paint it.

完成後

And after I've actually sculpted them,

我還要替它上色

I have to paint them.

在我把他們雕刻出来後

I experimented with a --

我便替他們上色

I found a dead fly.

我做了一個實驗 ...

And I plucked the hair off the fly's head.

我找來一隻死了的蒼蝿

Decided to make a paintbrush.

從它的頭上拔出一根毛

(Laughter)

用來做畫筆

But I would never do it to a living fly.

(笑聲)

(Laughter)

但我絕不會這樣對待一隻活生生的蒼蝿

Because I've heard a fly in pain.

(笑聲)

And they go "Meow! Ow!"

因為我曾聽到一隻痛苦的蒼蝿

Even though they get on our nerves,

「噢......! 噢!」地叫著

I would never kill an insect

儘管牠們惹人討厭

because, "All creatures great and small" --

我卻絕不會殺死任何一隻昆蟲

there is a hymn that says that.

因為「世上萬物，無分大小」...

So what I decided to do

有一首聖詩是這樣說的

is to pluck fine hair out of my face.

於是我決定

And I looked at it underneath the microscope.

從自己臉上拔出一根幼毛

That was the paintbrush.

並在顯微鏡下看它

And whilst I'm painting I have to be very careful,

那就是我的畫筆

because the paint starts to turn into little blobs.

我在上色的時候一定要非常小心

And it starts to dry very quickly.

因為顏料會開始結成小滴

So I have to be very quick.

而且很快地變乾

If I'm not, it will end up looking

所以我的行動要快

not like what it's supposed to look like.

要不然它最後看起來

It could end up looking like Humpty Dumpty or somebody else.

便半點不像了

So I have to be very very careful.

它可能落得一個矮胖子或者其他人的模樣

This one took me approximately,

因此我要加倍小心。

I would say, six to seven weeks.

這件作品大約花了我，

My work, rough estimate,

我想，六至七個星期完成。

sometimes five, six to seven weeks;

粗略估計，我的作品

you can't always anticipate.

一般需時五至七個星期。