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With my work I want to create pieces that engage community together and allow us to really celebrate something positive.
我希望能够通过我的工作来调动大家的积极性，一起来歌颂美好。
And I love seeing how the action of crocheting connects people together.
我特别喜欢看到钩编把大家联系起来的样子。
I'm Alec. I'm an artist, and crochet is my technique.
我是亚历克。我是一名艺术家，我的手艺就是钩编。
I was raised in a communist Poland with their limited access to any culture and any public art.
我是在社会主义国家波兰长大的，在我们国家，人们接触文化和公共艺术的机会非常有限。
In 2000 I came to New York. I was 22 I had a backpack full of dreams, and no money.
2000年，我来到了纽约。那时我才22岁，我有满腔的梦想，口袋里却是身无分文。
And I was asked to design a costume for a dancer.
有人让我去给某舞蹈演员设计一套服装。
I couldn't afford buying sewing machine,
但我买不起缝纫机呀，
so I came up with the idea of using the crochet hook to connect fabric together.
于是我就想到了用钩针钩一件衣服出来。
And after this was like explosion.
之后就一发不可收拾了。
I was crocheting gigantic installation right away.
我立马就开始钩大件织物了。
Crocheting is a process of making fabric with one continuous loop.
钩编是一种用针连续不间断地钩出一件织物的过程。
I travel around the world.
我会去世界各个地方工作。
Every time I go, all my projects somehow relate to the community I'm working with.
每次我去别的国家织个什么东西，我的作品都是和当地有着某种联系的。
Our pink house is the project I created in Avesta in Sweden.
这个粉红色的房子是我在瑞典的阿维斯塔做的项目。
This town accepted a lot of refugees from Syria and Ukraine.
这个小镇接纳了许多来自叙利亚和乌克兰的难民。
In India, we were crocheting a new skin for a homeless shelter.
在印度，我们为一家流浪汉收容所织了一套新衣服。
Probably most people know my work because of the Wall Street bull.
可能大多数人都是从华尔街那头牛那里了解到我的工作的。
I crocheted a pink camouflage as the response to the recent market crash that happened in 2008.
我给那头牛织了一件粉红色的迷彩服作为对08年市场崩盘的回应。
Currently I'm working on the project, “Love Across the USA.”
目前我正在做一个叫“举国之爱”。
I want to create a mural in every state that portraits women that change American history.
我想给每个州都设计一幅壁画，展示那些美国历史上风云女性。
I always create squares or rectangles sometimes,
我经常会织一些正方形或长方形的东西，
and then, when I have enough pieces, I crochet piece by piece together, with the help of the local people who wanna be part of this action.
等织够一定数量的时候，就把它们串起来，当地人他们也想参与进来，所以他们也会来帮我。
and then, I just go on the lift and install it.
然后坐上电梯把它挂起来就好了。
People want to be part of something.
大家其实是想参与起来的。
and I love saying that hunger that people have to create something so positive.
我也喜欢看到大家有这种创造美好事物的渴望。
it not just the image, but the power that every single loop is made by somebody's hand.
我们织的这些挂件不仅仅只是一幅画，一针一线都蕴含着某个人亲手所做的贡献。
