我最喜欢的艺术品

Leah P.，32岁

学生

加利福尼亚州洛杉矶市

我目前正在攻读机械工程硕士学位。我之所以对机械工程感兴趣，有一部分原因是因为我是一名艺术家。我喜欢尝试用不同的材料制造出能和别人互动的东西。我居住过许多不同的地方（洛杉矶、波士顿、华盛顿D.C.、坦桑尼亚、玻利维亚和印度），无论我在哪，我喜欢和艺术家合作。我现在住在马萨诸塞州剑桥市。我最喜欢制作的艺术品有：1.)纸浆雕塑(papier-mâché)；2.)陶瓷制品；3.)丝网印刷；4.)单刷版画和5.)照片。

1.这是我在玻利维亚的一场街头艺术和露天博物馆活动上制作的一个纸浆雕塑。我让人们回答这样一个问题“面具背后的你是谁？”，然后我贴出他们的回答让其他人看。答案真是形形色色！

2.我喜欢制作陶瓷，因为我可以做出人们可以实际使用的各种形状，。我喜欢摆弄各种质地和颜色，当然我在制作的时候会弄得一团乱。我在华盛顿D.C.时制作了这些碗。

3.我喜欢用丝网印刷技术在T恤衫或布片等地方快速制作大量具有视觉吸引力的艺术品，或是标语。眼下，我在马萨诸塞州的一家创客空间担任店长。我正在建立这家印刷店，以便使更多的人能够用这一技术印刷艺术品，或者在木头、布料和金属等其他材料上印刷。这是我们印刷店的一张图片，和一幅丝网印刷的自画像。

4.去年，我进行了一场作画表演，该画结合了坦桑尼亚的风景和斯瓦希里谚语。这幅画名叫Dalili ya mvua ni mawingu（云彩是下雨的征兆），这是一幅用蜡画涂料制作的单刷版画，之后我又在上面涂了一层水彩颜料。我喜欢这句谚语，因为就像用云彩来预测雨即将到来一样，你应该注意那些可以反应人们真实性格的迹象。

5.无论我走到哪里，我总是带着这些画。这张全景照片是我奶奶家（就在马萨诸塞州波士顿市外缘）附近的海滩上冬日的日落。

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My Favorite Art

Leah P., 32

Student

Los Angeles, California

I am pursuing a Masters degree in mechanical engineering. I got interested in engineering partially because I am an artist. I love to experiment with different materials to make things that other people can interact with. I have lived in lots of different places (Los Angeles, Boston, Washington D.C., Tanzania, Bolivia, and India) and I like collaborating with artists wherever I am. I live in Cambridge, Massachusetts now. My favorite types of art to make are 1.) papier-mâchésculptures, 2.) ceramics, 3.) silkscreens, 4.) monoprint, and 5.) photographs. 

1. This is a papier-mâché installation that I did in Bolivia for a street art and open museum festival. I asked people to answer the question “who are you behind your mask?” and post their answers for other people to see. There were all sorts of answers!

2. I enjoy making ceramics because I can make all sorts of forms that people can actually use. I love playing with the textures and colors and of course getting very messy while I’m making stuff. I made these bowls in Washington D.C.

3. I love using silkscreen to quickly make lots of visually appealing art or even slogans on T-shirts, patches, etc. Right now, I’m the shop lead at a maker space in Massachusetts. I’m setting up the print shop so that more people can use it to print artwork and also print on other materials such as wood, fabric, and metal. This is a picture of our shop, and of a silkscreen self-portrait. 

4. Last year I did a show combining scenes from Tanzania with Swahili proverbs. This picture is called Dalili ya mvua ni mawingu (Clouds are a sign of rain) and is a monoprint made with encaustic paint that then I painted watercolor over. I like this saying because just as clouds are used to predict coming rain, you should be aware of signs from people that show their true character.

5. Wherever I go I am always taking pictures. This panoramic photograph is a winter sunset on the beach near my grandma’s house (just outside of Boston, Massachusetts).

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