मुझे अपने काम में रोशनी बहुत पसंद है, लेकिन मैं कभी भी खुद नियॉन साइन से प्रभावित नहीं हुआ, बल्कि प्रकृति और वास्तुकला पर उनके असर ने मुझे आकर्षित किया। आप अपने आस-पास की चीज़ों को नजरअंदाज नहीं कर सकते, लेकिन साथ ही, एक समझदार कलाकार वही है जो विभिन्न तत्वों को जोड़ना, उन्हें ढालना और नए सिरे से इस्तेमाल करना जानता है... इसलिए यह एक इंजीनियरिंग प्रक्रिया भी बन जाती है।
I love light in my work but I was never influenced by neon signage in itself, rather its effect on nature and architecture. You can't ignore what's around you, but at the same time, an artist who has a sophisticated form language knows how to pull in different elements, and readjust and redirect those. . . . So it becomes an engineering process, too.
I love light in my work but I was never influenced by neon signage in itself, rather its effect on nature and architecture. You can't ignore what's around you, but at the same time, an artist who has a sophisticated form language knows how to pull in different elements, and readjust and redirect those. . . . So it becomes an engineering process, too.
तकनीक को लेकर मेरी समझ सहज है। और मैं अपने काम में जिस तरह से तकनीक का इस्तेमाल करता हूँ, उससे वह काफी हद तक इंसानी अहसास के करीब आ जाती है।
I have an intuitive understanding of technology. And the way I incorporate technology in the work tends to humanize it a great deal.
I have an intuitive understanding of technology. And the way I incorporate technology in the work tends to humanize it a great deal.
मुझे लगता है कि हर व्यक्ति को जीवन में कभी न कभी रुकावटों का सामना करना पड़ता है। हैरानी की बात यह है कि अगर आप काम करते रहें, तो शायद आप उसी समस्या को किसी दूसरे नजरिए से हल कर पाएंगे। अगर आप कोशिश ही नहीं करेंगे, तो आपके पास कुछ नहीं होगा; अगर आप कलाकृति बनाने का प्रयास ही नहीं करेंगे, तो उसका कोई वजूद ही नहीं होगा। कई बार ऐसा भी हुआ है कि जब मैं काम नहीं कर पा रहा था, तो मैं बस स्टूडियो में जाकर बैठ जाता था और इंतज़ार करता था कि शायद कुछ नया सूझ जाए। आप हमेशा किसी विदेशी यात्रा पर जाकर वापस आकर कुछ नया नहीं बना सकते।
I think everyone at some point comes up against a wall. Curiously, though, if you continue working, you might readdress that idea from another direction. If you didn't try something, you'd never have anything; if you didn't make an attempt to make the work, it wouldn't exist. There have been times when I could not work, and I would just go and sit down in the studio and wait to see what might happen. You can't always just go and take an exotic trip and come back and make something.
I think everyone at some point comes up against a wall. Curiously, though, if you continue working, you might readdress that idea from another direction. If you didn't try something, you'd never have anything; if you didn't make an attempt to make the work, it wouldn't exist. There have been times when I could not work, and I would just go and sit down in the studio and wait to see what might happen. You can't always just go and take an exotic trip and come back and make something.
मेरे लिए मूर्तिकला एक ऐसा परिवेशीय अनुशासन है जिसमें आप उसके इर्द-गिर्द घूमते हैं और उसका अनुभव करते हैं। और यदि किसी वास्तुकार (आर्किटेक्ट) के साथ आपकी अच्छी तालमेल हो, तो आप रंग और रूप के उन पहलुओं को इमारत के भीतर मिला सकते हैं - मेरा मतलब है कि जब रंग इमारत के भीतर एक आकार बन जाते हैं, तो वह एक बिल्कुल अलग नज़रिया बन जाता है। मुझे समकालीन वास्तुकला बहुत पसंद है, जो आपसी सहयोग को और भी दिलचस्प बनाती है - और आपको सहयोग करना आना भी चाहिए। यह एक तरह से फिल्म बनाने जैसा ही है: हर कोई उस टीम का हिस्सा होता है।
Sculpture, for me, provides that environmental discipline where you actually move in and around it. And if you have a good collaboration with an architect, to combine those aspects of color - I'm talking about color becoming a form within the building - that is a very different approach. I love contemporary architecture, which makes collaboration more interesting-and you have to be able to collaborate. It's like making a film, in a way: Everyone is a part of the team.
Sculpture, for me, provides that environmental discipline where you actually move in and around it. And if you have a good collaboration with an architect, to combine those aspects of color - I'm talking about color becoming a form within the building - that is a very different approach. I love contemporary architecture, which makes collaboration more interesting-and you have to be able to collaborate. It's like making a film, in a way: Everyone is a part of the team.
यह न्यू यॉर्क है। यहाँ आपको ऊपर से लेकर नीचे तक मेहनत करनी पड़ती है! एक सफल करियर बनाने के लिए आपको हर मोर्चे पर काम करना होगा। क्योंकि यह सिर्फ कोई कलाकृति बना देना भर नहीं है। आपकी कला को दुनिया के सामने जाना होता है, उसे बाज़ार में उतरना होता है। इस कला को आगे बढ़ाना ही पड़ता है; आखिर में इसे दुनिया के सामने परोसा जाना ही है। बस आगे बढ़ते रहो!
This is New York. You gotta work from upstairs to downstairs! You gotta work both ends of the street to have a career. Because it's not just fabricating an artwork. Your works have to go out into the world; they have to go to market. This art on the hoof has to be moved; it's got to go to the slaughterhouse at some point. Keep those dogies rollin'!
This is New York. You gotta work from upstairs to downstairs! You gotta work both ends of the street to have a career. Because it's not just fabricating an artwork. Your works have to go out into the world; they have to go to market. This art on the hoof has to be moved; it's got to go to the slaughterhouse at some point. Keep those dogies rollin'!
बहुत से कलाकार अच्छे रसोइया होते हैं और मैं भी हूँ, लेकिन एक ऐसी संस्कृति से आने के कारण जहाँ खाने को बहुत महत्व दिया जाता है, मैं शुरू से ही इसमें दिलचस्पी रखता था। अगर आपको खाने में रुचि है, तो आप संस्कृति के कई अलग-अलग पहलुओं में भी रुचि रखते हैं। यह किसी खास जगह के संगीत या लेखन में रुचि रखने जैसा ही है - खाना भी उसी का एक हिस्सा है।
A lot of artists are good cooks as I'm too, but coming from a culture that was very concerned with food, I was very interested in that from the start. If you're interested in food, you're interested in lots of different aspects of culture. And it's like being interested in the music from a certain area, or writing, or whatever-food is part of that, too.
A lot of artists are good cooks as I'm too, but coming from a culture that was very concerned with food, I was very interested in that from the start. If you're interested in food, you're interested in lots of different aspects of culture. And it's like being interested in the music from a certain area, or writing, or whatever-food is part of that, too.