ART.ZIP: Have you tried any artist studio companies before? How was that?
ART.ZIP: 你之前有在任何一家藝術家工作室裡創作嗎？覺得如何？
JC: Yes, I did. What happens in London is a lot like New York, there are quite a lot studio companies that specialise in helping artists out with cheap studios, like ASC (Artists Studio Company), which I was with before. Normally they get a semi-derelict building and then divide it up into very small spaces for artists to rent. The reason I didn’t go back to a studio company was I needed to expand, so I found this space by luck because I knew the welders and the powder coating company next door. I worked with them for a while and then one day they told me about this space. It actually put me in the right place to get my paint done – so it was like the typical business scenario – move to the source. If you’re not getting your steel on time, make sure the steel mill is next door.
JC: 是的，我有過這樣的經歷。在倫敦的工作室運作模式和紐約很相似，這裡有許多工作室機構專門為藝術家提供便宜的工作室，像ASC (Artists Studio Company)，我過去就在那里租用工作室。通常他們會找一棟半廢棄的大樓，將內部分隔成很多小空間，然後分租給藝術家們。我沒有回那兒的原因是我需要更大的空間。非常幸運的，我找到了這個地方。因為在此之前，我認識了這裡隔壁的電焊工和一家塗料公司的人，我和他們共事過一段時間，通過他們的幫助，我租下了現在的工作室。這真是個很棒的地方，我的塗料供應商就在隔壁。就像那種典型的商業模式：“離貨源越近越好。萬一不能準時收到鋼材，你還能依靠旁邊的鋼鐵廠。”
Quotation
“I think great design is often simplicity, and trying to get something as simple as this machine here, is quite a drawn out process. It takes some time to get all the elements right and then to get it to look right and then to get it to work right. So I suppose it is innovation as well as sculpture – it tackles various different innovations.”
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