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With my work I want to create pieces that engage community together and allow us to really celebrate something positive.
我希望能夠通過我的工作來調動大家的積極性，一起來歌頌美好。
And I love seeing how the action of crocheting connects people together.
我特別喜歡看到鉤編把大家聯系起來的樣子。
I'm Alec. I'm an artist, and crochet is my technique.
我是亞歷克。我是一名藝術家，我的手藝就是鉤編。
I was raised in a communist Poland with their limited access to any culture and any public art.
我是在社會主義國家波蘭長大的，在我們國家，人們接觸文化和公共藝術的機會非常有限。
In 2000 I came to New York. I was 22 I had a backpack full of dreams, and no money.
2000年，我來到了紐約。那時我才22歲，我有滿腔的夢想，口袋里卻是身無分文。
And I was asked to design a costume for a dancer.
有人讓我去給某舞蹈演員設計一套服裝。
I couldn't afford buying sewing machine,
但我買不起縫紉機呀，
so I came up with the idea of using the crochet hook to connect fabric together.
于是我就想到了用鉤針鉤一件衣服出來。
And after this was like explosion.
之后就一發不可收拾了。
I was crocheting gigantic installation right away.
我立馬就開始鉤大件織物了。
Crocheting is a process of making fabric with one continuous loop.
鉤編是一種用針連續不間斷地鉤出一件織物的過程。
I travel around the world.
我會去世界各個地方工作。
Every time I go, all my projects somehow relate to the community I'm working with.
每次我去別的國家織個什么東西，我的作品都是和當地有著某種聯系的。
Our pink house is the project I created in Avesta in Sweden.
這個粉紅色的房子是我在瑞典的阿維斯塔做的項目。
This town accepted a lot of refugees from Syria and Ukraine.
這個小鎮接納了許多來自敘利亞和烏克蘭的難民。
In India, we were crocheting a new skin for a homeless shelter.
在印度，我們為一家流浪漢收容所織了一套新衣服。
Probably most people know my work because of the Wall Street bull.
可能大多數人都是從華爾街那頭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.
我給那頭牛織了一件粉紅色的迷彩服作為對08年市場崩盤的回應。
Currently I'm working on the project, “Love Across the USA.”
目前我正在做一個叫“舉國之愛”。
I want to create a mural in every state that portraits women that change American history.
我想給每個州都設計一幅壁畫，展示那些美國歷史上風云女性。
I always create squares or rectangles sometimes,
我經常會織一些正方形或長方形的東西，
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.
等織夠一定數量的時候，就把它們串起來，當地人他們也想參與進來，所以他們也會來幫我。
and then, I just go on the lift and install it.
然后坐上電梯把它掛起來就好了。
People want to be part of something.
大家其實是想參與起來的。
and I love saying that hunger that people have to create something so positive.
我也喜歡看到大家有這種創造美好事物的渴望。
it not just the image, but the power that every single loop is made by somebody's hand.
我們織的這些掛件不僅僅只是一幅畫，一針一線都蘊含著某個人親手所做的貢獻。
