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We Are Not Zombies [WANZ]
  • 2 years ago
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WE ARE NOT ZOMBIES presenta Y TÚ QUÉ con JOHN SHAVER

John Shaver es un artista profesional basado en la ciudad de Vancouver. Desde muy joven supo que quería ser artista pues sus diferentes habilidades lo encaminaron a esa profesión. Sin embargo, el arte expuesto en galerías y museos no le atraía; quería que su arte fuera más público, que el exterior y el paisaje se convirtieran en su propio medio de exhibición.

A través del Land Art, el cual emplea materiales de la naturaleza y construye instalaciones en ese mismo ambiente, John hace Rock Balancing, una disciplina que superpone piedras, sin ningún tipo de adhesivo o soporte, creando esculturas temporales. Este ejercicio es una especie de meditación, lo coloca en el aquí y el ahora, con el sonido de las olas de fondo, conviviendo con el peso y el tacto de las rocas. Su trabajo es el reflejo de la fragilidad humana: encontrar el equilibrio es sencillo, pero nunca es permanente.

Y Tú Qué presenta a humanas y humanos apasionados por su quehacer, su conocimiento y su camino de vida, para inspirar y motivar a otros a hallar su propia pasión.

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Transcript
00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:02 My name is John Shaver.
00:13 I'm a professional artist.
00:16 I'm 39 years old, and I currently live in Vancouver.
00:24 When I first realized I wanted to be an artist
00:28 was when I was out of high school.
00:33 I knew that I had the ability to draw,
00:36 and I wanted to pursue it.
00:38 The older I got, the more I realized
00:41 that the type of art that the organized galleries want
00:47 and promote was not the type of art that I found satisfying.
00:54 So I dabbled in different mediums for a while,
00:58 and started getting into land art at a later age,
01:02 and really started pursuing it in front of the public
01:07 more so, and basically turning a shoreline
01:11 into my own personal gallery.
01:13 So I could just not bother with the traditional galleries
01:17 and all the bureaucratic red tape that goes along with it.
01:20 I just started doing public installations on my own.
01:25 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:28 My balancing stone work was born out of, as a child, boredom.
01:36 When I was balancing things as a young boy,
01:39 I was able to do it at about eight years old.
01:41 When I was walking in the park with my family,
01:44 we saw a rock balancer working on a shore in Stanley Park.
01:51 And I remember when we came there,
01:56 this person asked why he was doing this.
01:59 And his statement was really what kind of stuck with me
02:03 for a while, was he said he was doing it to remind us
02:06 that anything is possible.
02:08 What I found most impressive was when I tried it,
02:12 I couldn't do it.
02:13 But I remember what he said.
02:15 And I saw him doing it, so I knew it could be done.
02:19 And I tried and tried and tried, and finally I
02:21 got one not anywhere as near as good as he could do.
02:26 But I understood what he meant at that moment.
02:29 Right there, I sort of realized that if you believe anything
02:33 is possible, you're right.
02:37 But if you believe that it's an impossible thing,
02:40 you won't even pick up the stone to try.
02:43 So you're right.
02:44 It is impossible for you because you made it that way.
02:49 The only limit is what you set yourself.
02:51 So as a young boy, I realized that I could do it.
02:54 And from there, it just took off.