(单词翻译:单击)
Without arms or legs artist Adama Traore of Abidjan finds a unique way to make his art.
没有胳臂和腿,阿比让艺术家特劳雷找寻了一种独特的方法来创作艺术。
Line by line, stroke by stroke, color by color.
一线一线,一笔一笔,一种颜色一种颜色。
Missing limbs since birth, he attended a center for disabled youth at nine where he learned ways to paint.
他自出生就失去了四肢,他9岁时参加了一个残疾青年中心的活动,他在那里开始学习绘画。
When I was a child, my mum sent me to this white lady named Marie Odile in a center for the disabled.
当我还小时,妈妈让我在这个残疾人中心遇到了一位白人女士,名叫玛丽·奥黛尔。
I learned to paint there. I worked with gouache, markers.
我在那里开始学习绘画,我画过水粉画,也用过记号笔。
Thanks to her today, we were more than 100 disabled people in the Providence center. The lady passed away and I ended up in the streets.
多亏了她,这个上天保佑的中心有超过100名残疾人,这名女士去世后,我流落了街头。
It was a difficult life after his teacher and mentor died.
他的老师和导师去世后,生活很艰难。

Just getting around was hard, taxi drivers would not pick him up, assuming he had no money.
生活是艰难的,的士司机不会拉他,认为他一定没钱。
But he kept painting colorful landscapes and portraits, earning some recognition and money.
但他一直坚持画风景和肖像画,并让他赢得了一些知名度和金钱。
Traore slowly built up savings from his artwork and used it to open a small art studio.
特劳雷慢慢地从画作上攒下了积蓄,并用它来开了一间小型艺术制作室。
He got married and now commutes to work by taxi. This driver impressed by the artist's determination
他结了婚,并开始坐出租车上班,这名司机被他的决心所感染,
now gives him both a ride and a bit of a discount on the fare.
他不仅让他上车,还会给他打折。
Every day I pick him and drop him off and the evening again. I take him back home. Honestly money doesn't matter, it's courage.
我每天都会接送他,晚上也是,我带他回家,诚实地说钱不重要,是勇气。
Traore says painting is therapeutic and lifts spirits. Painting heals, painting boosts morale, painting cleans the spirit, become Traore Adama.
特劳雷称绘画是可以治愈,可以升华心灵,绘画治愈,绘画可以提升士气,绘画可以纯净心灵,让我成为了特劳雷。
If I didn't paint, I don't know what I would do, I can't be a carpenter, I can't be a mason.
如果我不会画,我不知道做什么,我不可能成为工匠,我也不是泥瓦匠。
But I do paint, if I'm just sitting here people would say this one is doing nothing, he's a beggar.
但我绘画,如果我只是坐在这里,人们会说他什么都不做,他就是个乞丐。
But when they see me working, they're saying this one is a worker.
但当他们看到我工作时,他们会说他是工作者。
That work earns Traore about 84 dollars for each painting.
每个画作让他赢得了大约84美元。
Jim Randle VOA news.
吉米·兰德尔,VOA新闻
