Name: 【TED】Janet Echelman: Taking imagination seriously (Janet Echelman: Taking imagination seriously)
Uploaded: 2016-07-04T13:30:22.000Z
Duration: 9 min 27 s
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Adverbs of manner

I first encountered this ordinary material, fishnet,

I was an unlikely person to be doing this.

I went off on my own to become an artist,

Promising to give exhibitions of paintings,

I shipped my paints and arrived in Mahabalipuram.

This fishing village was famous for sculpture.

But to make large forms was too heavy and expensive.

bundle their nets into mounds on the sand.

was made in collaboration with these fishermen.

to shift from being an object you look at

Returning to India to work with those fishermen,

of a million and a half hand-tied knots --

to idiosyncratic, delicate and ephemeral.

out there in the middle of the traffic circle.

So we raised this 45,000-pound steel ring.

I found a brilliant aeronautical engineer

who designs sails for America's Cup racing yachts

to translate this ancient, idiosyncratic handcraft

into something machine operators could produce.

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【TED】Janet Echelman: Taking imagination seriously (Janet Echelman: Taking imagination seriously)

material

applause

scale

create