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Phil Hansen: Embrace the shake
Phil Hansen: Perqafo dridhjen
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Ne shkollen e artit, Phil Hansen zhvilloi nje dridhje ne duar qe e ndaluan te krijonte vizatimet me pika qe aq shume i donte. Hansen ndjehej i derrmuar, duke u endur pa nje qellim. Kjo, deri ne momentin kur nje neurolog i beri nje sugjerim te thjeshte: perqafo keto kufizime... dhe kaloji ato.
Phil Hansen - Multimedia artist
Taking a cue from his own artistic journey, Phil Hansen challenges us to spark our creativity by thinking inside the box. Full bio
Taking a cue from his own artistic journey, Phil Hansen challenges us to spark our creativity by thinking inside the box. Full bio
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00:12
So, when I was in art school,
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Kur kam qene ne shkollen e artit,
00:14
I developed a shake in my hand,
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zhvillova nje dridhje dore,
00:16
and this was the straightest line I could draw.
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dhe kjo ishte me e drejta vize qe mund te vizatoja.
00:19
Now in hindsight, it was actually good for some things,
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E pare ne nje tjeter kendveshtrim, kjo per ca gjera nuk ishe fort keq,
00:21
like mixing a can of paint or shaking a Polaroid,
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si ne rastin e perzierjes se nje kutie boje ose shkundja e nje fotografie Polaroid,
00:24
but at the time this was really doomsday.
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por dhe nje periudhe e erret e jetes sime.
00:27
This was the destruction of my dream of becoming an artist.
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Kjo ishte fundi i enderres sime per tu bere nje artist.
00:31
The shake developed out of, really,
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Ne te vertete, dridhja u zhvillua si pasoje
00:33
a single-minded pursuit of pointillism,
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e ndjekjes se pikezimit,
00:35
just years of making tiny, tiny dots.
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vite te tera te berit e pikave te vogla.
00:38
And eventually these dots went from being perfectly round
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Me kohen, keto pika kaluan nga te qenurit persosmerisht te rrumbullakta
00:41
to looking more like tadpoles, because of the shake.
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te duken si emrbion amfibesh, vec per shkak te dridhjes.
00:45
So to compensate, I'd hold the pen tighter,
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Si rrjedhoje, une do perpiqesha te kompensoja duke e mbajtur stilolapsin me shtrenguar,
00:47
and this progressively made the shake worse,
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gje kjo qe e perkeqesoi dridhjen,
00:50
so I'd hold the pen tighter still.
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dhe une stilolapsin ende me shtrenguar.
00:52
And this became a vicious cycle that ended up
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E gjithe kjo perfundoi ne nje rreth vicioz qe perfundoi
00:54
causing so much pain and joint issues,
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ne shkaktim dhimbjesh dhe probleme me nyjet e kockave,
00:56
I had trouble holding anything.
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dhe probleme ne mbajtjen e gjithckaje.
00:59
And after spending all my life wanting to do art,
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Dhe pasi kisha shpenzuar gjithe jeten me deshiren per te bere art,
01:02
I left art school, and then I left art completely.
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lashe shkollen e artit dhe artin perfundimisht.
01:07
But after a few years, I just couldn't stay away from art,
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Por pas disa vitesh, kuptova qe nuk mund te qendroja larg nga arti,
01:09
and I decided to go to a neurologist about the shake
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dhe vendosa te shkoj te shoh nje neurolog ne lidhje me dridhjen
01:11
and discovered I had permanent nerve damage.
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dhe zbulova qe kisha demtim permanent te nervave.
01:14
And he actually took one look at my squiggly line,
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Neurologu i hodhi nje sy vijezimeve te mia jo te drejta,
01:17
and said, "Well, why don't you just embrace the shake?"
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dhe tha, " Po mire, perse nuk e perqafon dridhjen?"
01:20
So I did. I went home, I grabbed a pencil,
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Keshtu bera. Shkova ne shtepi, mora nje laps,
01:23
and I just started letting my hand shake and shake.
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dhe e lashe doren e lire per tu dridhur dhe sperdridhur.
01:25
I was making all these scribble pictures.
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Po beja vizatime te shtrembera.
01:27
And even though it wasn't the kind of art
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Dhe ndonese nuk ishte lloji i artit
01:29
that I was ultimately passionate about, it felt great.
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per te cilin isha i apasionuar, u ndjeva mrekullisht mire.
01:33
And more importantly, once I embraced the shake,
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Dhe c'ka ishte me e rendesishme, ne momentin qe e perqafova dridhjen,
01:35
I realized I could still make art.
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e kuptova qe ende mund te beja art.
01:37
I just had to find a different approach
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Thjesht duhej te gjeja nje qasje tjeter
01:39
to making the art that I wanted.
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per te bere llojin e artit qe deshiroja.
01:41
Now, I still enjoyed the fragmentation of pointillism,
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Tani, e shijoj copezimin e pikezimit,
01:44
seeing these little tiny dots come together
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tek shoh keto pika te vogela qe bashkohen
01:46
to make this unified whole.
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per te krijuar kete te tere te bashkuar.
01:48
So I began experimenting with other ways to fragment images
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Si rrjedhoje, fillova te eksperimentoja me menyra te tjera per te copezuar imazhesh
01:51
where the shake wouldn't affect the work,
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ku dridhja nuk do ta afektonte punen,
01:53
like dipping my feet in paint and walking on a canvas,
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si pershembull, zhytjen e kembeve ne boje dhe te ecja mbi kanvas,
01:57
or, in a 3D structure consisting of two-by-fours,
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ose, ne nje strukture 3D dy me kater,
02:01
creating a 2D image by burning it with a blowtorch.
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duke krijuar nje imazh 2D nga djegja me pishtar.
02:06
I discovered that, if I worked on a larger scale and with bigger materials,
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Zbulova qe duke punuar ne pune te medha dhe me materiale me te medha,
02:10
my hand really wouldn't hurt,
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dora nuk do me dhimbte,
02:12
and after having gone from a single approach to art,
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dhe kalimi nga nje qasje e vetme e artit,
02:16
I ended up having an approach to creativity
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perfundova ne te paturit e nje qasjeje tjeter ndaj kreativitetit
02:18
that completely changed my artistic horizons.
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qe ka ndryshuar plotesisht horizontet e mia artistike.
02:22
This was the first time I'd encountered this idea
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Kjo ishte hera e pare qe une do te zbuloja idene
02:24
that embracing a limitation could actually drive creativity.
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qe perqafimi i nje kufizimi mund te frymezonte kreativitet.
02:29
At the time, I was finishing up school,
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Ne ate kohe, isha ne perfundim te shkolles,
02:32
and I was so excited to get a real job and finally afford new art supplies.
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dhe isha shume i lumtur qe tashme do mund te gjeja pune dhe te mund te blija paisje per artin.
02:35
I had this horrible little set of tools, and I felt like
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Kisha ca paisje te vjeteruara, dhe mendova
02:39
I could do so much more with the supplies
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qe mund te beja kaq shume me teper po te kisha materiale te reja
02:41
I thought an artist was supposed to have.
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qe cdo artist duhej te kish.
02:44
I actually didn't even have a regular pair of scissors.
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As nje pale gershere per te qene nuk kisha.
02:46
I was using these metal shears until I stole a pair
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Po perdorja keto prereza metali derisa vodha nje pale
02:48
from the office that I worked at.
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nga zyra ku punoja.
02:51
So I got out of school, I got a job, I got a paycheck,
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Pra, sapo perfundova shkollen, gjeta pune, mora pagen e pare
02:53
I got myself to the art store,
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dhe shkova ne dyqanin e artit,
02:55
and I just went nuts buying supplies.
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e nuk lashe gje pa blere.
02:58
And then when I got home, I sat down
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Kur u ktheva ne shtepi, u ula
03:00
and I set myself to task to really try to create something
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dhe i vendosa vetes qellimin e te krijuarit dicka
03:03
just completely outside of the box.
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plotesisht jashte te zakonshmes.
03:06
But I sat there for hours, and nothing came to mind.
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Por, qendrova ulur aty per ore te tera dhe asgje nuk me erdhi ne mendje.
03:10
The same thing the next day, and then the next,
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E njejta gje ndodhi diten e neserme dhe ne ate qe e ndoqi,
03:13
quickly slipping into a creative slump.
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duke rene keshtu nje nje batak kreativ.
03:16
And I was in a dark place for a long time, unable to create.
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Rashe ne nje zone te erret per nje kohe te gjate, me paaftesine per te krijuar.
03:21
And it didn't make any sense, because I was finally able
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Dhe kjo nuk kisha asnje kuptim, pasi me ne fund isha i zoti
03:23
to support my art, and yet I was creatively blank.
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te mbeshtesja artin tim, dhe serish boshllek kreativ.
03:28
But as I searched around in the darkness,
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Por, ndersa endesha ne erresire,
03:30
I realized I was actually paralyzed by all of the choices
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kuptova se isha i paralizuar nga te gjitha ato zgjedhje
03:33
that I never had before.
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qe nuk i kam patur kurre me pare.
03:36
And it was then that I thought back to my jittery hands.
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Dhe ne ate moment iu ktheva dhe nje here duarve te mia qe dridheshin.
03:40
Embrace the shake.
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Te perqafuarit e dhridhjes.
03:42
And I realized, if I ever wanted my creativity back,
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Dhe kuptova qe, nese e desha kreativitetin time mbrapsht,
03:45
I had to quit trying so hard to think outside of the box
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duhej te reshtja perpjekjen per te krijuar dicka te vecante
03:49
and get back into it.
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dhe thjesht te ulesha dhe krijoja.
03:51
I wondered, could you become more creative, then,
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Mendova, a mund te beheshe me kreativ duke
03:54
by looking for limitations?
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u fokusuar ne kufizime?
03:56
What if I could only create with a dollar's worth of supplies?
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Po sikur te krijoja me paisje qe vlenin sa me pak te ishte e mundur?
04:02
At this point, I was spending a lot of my evenings in --
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Nga ky moment, po harxhoja mbremjet--
04:04
well, I guess I still spend a lot of my evenings in Starbucks —
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epo, ende vazhdoj te shpenzoj nje pjese te madhe te tyre te Starbucks--
04:07
but I know you can ask for an extra cup if you want one,
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dhe mund te kerkosh nje tjeter gote nese deshiron,
04:10
so I decided to ask for 50.
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kshq vendosa te kerkoj per 50 gota.
04:12
Surprisingly, they just handed them right over,
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Cuditerisht, mi dhane te gjitha pernjehere,
04:14
and then with some pencils I already had,
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dhe me disa lapsa qe i kisha me vete,
04:16
I made this project for only 80 cents.
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bera kete projekt me nje kosto prej 80 centesh.
04:19
It really became a moment of clarification for me
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Kjo u kthye ne nje moment zbardhjeje per mua
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that we need to first be limited
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qe ne menyre per te shmangur kufijte
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in order to become limitless.
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ne duhet fillimisht te vendosim kufij.
04:28
I took this approach of thinking inside the box
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Ndoqa qasjen e te menduarit brenda kutise
04:30
to my canvas, and wondered what if, instead of
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se kanvasit tim, dhe mendova, po sikur te mos pikturoja ne kanvas,
04:32
painting on a canvas, I could only paint on my chest?
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por te pikturoja ne gjoksin tim?
04:35
So I painted 30 images, one layer at a time,
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Si rrjedhoje pikturova 30 imazhe, nga nje shtrese secila,
04:38
one on top of another,
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njera mbi tjetren,
04:39
with each picture representing an influence in my life.
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ku cdo fotografi perfaqesonte nje influence ne jeten time.
04:43
Or what if, instead of painting with a brush,
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Po sikur, ne vend qe te pikturoja me nje furce,
04:46
I could only paint with karate chops? (Laughter)
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Mund te pikturoja vec me levizje karateje? (E qeshur)
04:49
So I'd dip my hands in paint,
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Keshtuqe, zhysja duart ne boje,
04:50
and I just attacked the canvas,
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dhe sulmoja telajon,
04:52
and I actually hit so hard that I bruised a joint in my pinkie
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dhe godisja aq fort sa lendova nje nyje te gishtit te vogel
04:54
and it was stuck straight for a couple of weeks.
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dhe ngela pa levizur per disa jave.
04:57
(Laughter) (Applause)
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(Te qeshura) (Duartrokitje)
05:01
Or, what if instead of relying on myself,
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Ose, po sikur ne vend qe te mbeshtetesha te vetja,
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I had to rely on other people
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te me duhej te mbeshtetesha tek njerez te tjere
05:07
to create the content for the art?
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ne menyre per te krijuar permbajtjen e artit tim?
05:09
So for six days, I lived in front of a webcam.
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Pra, per gjashte dite, jetova perpara nje webcam.
05:12
I slept on the floor and I ate takeout,
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Fjeta ne cimento dhe hengra ushqim te porositur ne restorante,
05:15
and I asked people to call me and share a story with me
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dhe i kerkova njerezve te me telefononin dhe te ndanin me mua
05:17
about a life-changing moment.
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nje event qe i kish ndryshuar jeten.
05:20
Their stories became the art
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Historite e tyre u kthyen ne art
05:22
as I wrote them onto the revolving canvas.
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teksa i shkrova ato ne telajon time levizese.
05:26
(Applause)
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(Duartrokitje)
05:30
Or what if instead of making art to display,
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Ose, po sikur ne vend qe te benim art per tu ekspozuar,
05:35
I had to destroy it?
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ta shkaterronim ate?
05:37
This seemed like the ultimate limitation,
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Kjo dukej te ish kufizimi me i madh i mundshem,
05:39
being an artist without art.
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te qenurit nje artist pa art.
05:42
This destruction idea turned into a yearlong project
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Ideja e ketij shkaterrimi u kthye ne nje projekt qe zgjati nje vit te tere
05:44
that I called Goodbye Art,
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te cilin une e quajta Mirupafshim Art,
05:46
where each and every piece of art had to be destroyed after its creation.
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ku cdo pjese art do te shkaterrohej pas krijimit.
05:50
In the beginning of Goodbye Art, I focused on
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Ne gjenezen e Mirupafshim Art, une u fokusova ne
05:52
forced destruction, like this image of Jimi Hendrix,
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forcat e shkaterrimit, si imazhi i Jimi Hendrix,
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made with over 7,000 matches.
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i krijuar me me teper se 7,000 shkrepese.
05:57
(Laughter)
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(Te qeshura)
05:58
Then I opened it up to creating art that was destroyed naturally.
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Me pas ktheva veshtrimi ne krijimin e artit i cili ishte shkaterruar me pare.
06:02
I looked for temporary materials,
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Fillova te kerkoj per materiale te perkoheshme,
06:04
like spitting out food --
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si te peshtyrit e ushqimit--
06:06
(Laughter) —
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(Te qeshura)--
06:11
sidewalk chalk
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shkumes anes rrugesh
06:14
and even frozen wine.
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madje dhe vere e ngrire.
06:18
The last iteration of destruction
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Perseritja e fundit e shkaterrimit
06:20
was to try to produce something that didn't actually exist in the first place.
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ishte te prodhoja dicka e cila nuk kish ekzistuar kurre.
06:24
So I organized candles on a table, I lit them, and then blew them out,
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Keshtuqe, organizova disa qirinj mbi tavoline, i ndeza, dhe me pas i fika me nje fryme,
06:28
then repeated this process over and over with the same set of candles,
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e perserita kete proces disa here me te njejtet qirinj,
06:31
then assembled the videos into the larger image.
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dhe me pas i mblodha videot ne nje imazh te madh.
06:35
So the end image was never visible as a physical whole.
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Imazhi perfundimtar nuk ish kurre i dukshem si nje e tere fizike.
06:40
It was destroyed before it ever existed.
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Ishte shkaterruar perpara se te ekzistonte ndonjehere.
06:44
In the course of this Goodbye Art series,
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Gjate vazhdimit te periudhes Mirupafshim Art,
06:46
I created 23 different pieces
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krijova 23 pjese te ndryshme
06:49
with nothing left to physically display.
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pa lene asgje per te ekspozuar fizikisht.
06:52
What I thought would be the ultimate limitation
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Ate qe mendova se do te jete kufizimi me i madh
06:55
actually turned out to be the ultimate liberation,
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faktikisht u kthye ne lirine me te madhe,
06:58
as each time I created,
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sepse sa here krijoja,
07:00
the destruction brought me back to a neutral place
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shkaterrimi me sillte pas ne nje vend neutral
07:02
where I felt refreshed and ready to start the next project.
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ku une ndjehesha i rifreskuar dhe gati per te nisur projektin e rradhes.
07:06
It did not happen overnight.
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Nuk ndodhi brenda nje nate.
07:08
There were times when my projects failed to get off the ground,
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kishte kohe kur projektet nuk perfunduan mire,
07:11
or, even worse, after spending tons of time on them
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ose, akoma me keq, pasi shpenzoja shume kohe me to
07:13
the end image was kind of embarrassing.
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perfundimi ishte pothuajse i turpshem.
07:16
But having committed to the process, I continued on,
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Por, duke qene se i isha dedikuar procesit, vazhdova me te,
07:19
and something really surprising came out of this.
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dhe dicka me te vertete e papritur doli prej saj.
07:21
As I destroyed each project,
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Teksa shkaterroja cdo projekt,
07:24
I was learning to let go,
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po mesoja te hiqja dore,
07:26
let go of outcomes, let go of failures,
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te hiqja dore nga pritshmerite, te hiqja dore nga deshtimet,
07:30
and let go of imperfections.
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dhe nga papesosmerite.
07:32
And in return, I found a process of creating art
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Dhe ne kembim, gjeta nje proces per te krijuar art
07:35
that's perpetual and unencumbered by results.
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qe nuk varej nga rezultatet.
07:39
I found myself in a state of constant creation,
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E gjeta veten ne nje gjendje krijimi te vazhdueshem,
07:41
thinking only of what's next
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duke menduar vazhdimisht rreth asaj qe do vinte
07:44
and coming up with more ideas than ever.
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dhe duke patur me shume ide se kurre me pare.
07:46
When I think back to my three years away from art,
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Tek mendoj per ato tre vjet larg artit,
07:49
away from my dream, just going through the motions,
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larg enderrave te mia, duke ndjekur thjesht rrjedhen,
07:52
instead of trying to find a different way to continue that dream,
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ne vend qe te gjija nje tjeter menyre per te vazhduar te enderruari,
07:56
I just quit, I gave up.
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une thjesht hoqa dore.
07:59
And what if I didn't embrace the shake?
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C'do te kish ndodhur sikur te mos e kisha perqafuar dridhjen?
08:03
Because embracing the shake for me
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Sepse te perqafuarit e dridhjes per mua
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wasn't just about art and having art skills.
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nuk ish thjesht rreth artit dhe te paturit e aftesive artistike.
08:07
It turned out to be about life, and having life skills.
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Doli qe kjo e fundit te ish rreth jetes, dhe te paturit e aftesive jetike.
08:11
Because ultimately, most of what we do
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Sepse, ne fund te fundit, pjesa me e madhe e asaj cka ne bejme
08:14
takes place here, inside the box, with limited resources.
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zhvillohet ketu, brenda nje kutije, me burime te kufizuara.
08:19
Learning to be creative within the confines of our limitations
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Te mesosh te jesh kreativ brenda kufijve te kufizimeve tona
08:23
is the best hope we have to transform ourselves
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eshte shpresa me e madhe qe kemi per te transformuar veten
08:27
and, collectively, transform our world.
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dhe, ne menyre kolektive, te transformuarit e botes.
08:31
Looking at limitations as a source of creativity
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Te parit e kufizimeve si nje burim kreativiteti
08:35
changed the course of my life.
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ndryshoi drejtimin e jetes sime.
08:38
Now, when I run into a barrier
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Tani, kur une hasem me nje pengese
08:39
or I find myself creatively stumped,
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ose jam ne nje kenet kreativiteti,
08:43
I sometimes still struggle,
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serish e gjej veten me shpatulla pas muri,
08:44
but I continue to show up for the process
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por, nuk i largohem procesit
08:46
and try to remind myself of the possibilities,
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dhe i kujtoj vetes mundesite,
08:50
like using hundreds of real, live worms to make an image,
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si perdorimi i qindra krimbave te gjalle per te krijuar nje imazh,
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using a pushpin to tattoo a banana,
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te perdorurit e nje gjilpere per ti bere tatuazh nje bananeje,
08:59
or painting a picture with hamburger grease.
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ose te pikturuarit me yndyren e hamburgerit.
09:05
(Laughter)
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(Te qeshura)
09:07
One of my most recent endeavors
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Nje nga nismat e mia me te fundit
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is to try to translate the habits of creativity that I've learned
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eshte te perkthyerit e zakoneve te kreativitetit qe kam mesuar
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into something others can replicate.
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ne dicka qe mund te perseritet.
09:15
Limitations may be the most unlikely of places
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Kufizimet mund te gjenden ne vendet me te pazakonta
09:19
to harness creativity, but perhaps
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per te ngacmuar kreativitetin, por ndoshta
09:22
one of the best ways to get ourselves out of ruts,
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nje nga menyrat me te mira per ta larguar veten nga rrenjet,
09:26
rethink categories and challenge accepted norms.
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eshte te rimendosh kategorite dhe te luftosh normat e vendosura.
09:30
And instead of telling each other to seize the day,
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Dhe ne vend qe ti thoni njeri-tjetrit te jetoni diten ne maksimum,
09:33
maybe we can remind ourselves every day
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ndoshta mund te kujtojme njeri-tjetrin perdite
09:37
to seize the limitation.
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te kapin kufizimet e tyre.
09:40
Thank you.
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Faleminderit.
09:41
(Applause)
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(Duartrokitje)
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Phil Hansen - Multimedia artistTaking a cue from his own artistic journey, Phil Hansen challenges us to spark our creativity by thinking inside the box.
Why you should listen
As an art student, Phil Hansen’s intense style of pointillism led to a tremor in his hand and a diagnosis of nerve damage. Devastated, he dropped out and lost his way ... until a neurologist suggested he “embrace the shake.” That piece of advice tweaked Hansen’s point of view and sent him on a quest to invent different approaches to making art by embracing personal and universal limitations.
Hansen challenged himself to create art using unconventional materials (dandelion puffs, matches, live worms, hamburger grease) and canvases (a stack of Satrbucks cups, his torso, bananas). The resulting time-lapse videos of his creative processes are his meta-art, showing that art is action, not just results. Through an integrated view of what sparks creativity, Hansen has devoted himself to teaching others the approaches to creativity that have changed both his outlook and his artistic endeavors. You can read more in his 2012 book, Tattoo a Banana.
Hansen has just started a new project via Kickstarter, inviting people to share their stories of overcoming limitations with him. Anyone who calls him at 651-321-4996 and tells him their story will become a part of the work, the creation of which is watchable on a live feed.
Phil Hansen | Speaker | TED.com