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I started in April
我從四月動工
and I stopped working in the middle of July.
到七月中旬結束
I worked about four, five hours a day.
每天大概制作四五個小時
In the end, it was about 400 hours, then I stopped counting.
最后算了下有四百個工時
I guess it was a real artist who made this.
我覺得它的制作者是真正的藝術家
And he was set free by his community
他的族人允許他
only to do this piece of artwork.
只專心制作這個工藝品
If you do this a whole summer or a whole winter through,
如果你花整個夏天或冬天做這個
you can't go hunting, you can't go fishing, you can't do nothing
你就無法打獵釣魚 什么都干不了
because you work all day on it.
因為你全天都得干這個
It must have had incredible meaning for the people who made it.
它對制作者一定有非同尋常的意義
And these must have been charged with meaning too.
而這些應該也被賦予了特殊意義
Small figurines embodying the primal life events
這些小雕像展現了原始生活的
of birth and procreation.
生產及生殖行為
Gravid earth mothers weighty with fertility,
孕育著生命的大地母親大腹便便
enormous distended breasts and buttocks.
有著極其豐滿的胸部和臀部
