读者文摘:废墟中作画的艺术家(2)

Suddenly, Grammer realized that what he had thought was a purely¹ artistic² expression had morphed into something deeper, the hallmark of true art.

突然间，格拉默意识到他之前认为的简单艺术表达已经演变成更深层次的东西，真正艺术的标志。

"When the first mural moved so many people in this community, I knew I had to come back up," Grammer told KRCR-TV in Redding.

格拉默告诉雷丁市的KRCR电视台，“当第一幅壁画感动了这个社区这么多人的时候，我知道我必须回来。

Over a period of three months he returned eight times, painting 17 portraits of victims and Biblical figures on walls, pickups, and shards³ of buildings. "There is hope," he explains.

在3个月的时间里，他回来了8次，在墙上、小卡车和建筑物的碎片上画了17幅受害者和圣经人物的画像。“还有希望，”他解释道。

"There is beauty in the ashes. "Outside one house, he found a photo of an eight-year-old named Eleanor.

灰烬中有美丽。“在房子外面，他发现了一个名为埃莉诺的8岁小孩的照片。

Seeing it as a sign, he painted a mural of her on the lone⁴ wall of her home that was left standing⁵.

他以这张照片为素材，在小孩家中仅剩的一面墙上画了一幅她的壁画。

It was, Grammer says, "a stamp that life was here and that life can continue to be here."

它标记着生命曾出现在这里，并且生命可以继续留在这里。”

The portrait had special meaning for the home's owner. Eleanor's father, Greg Weddig,

这幅肖像画对这个家庭的主人有着特别含义。埃莉诺的父亲，格雷格·韦迪格

recalls how she used to play just feet away from where the mural was painted.

回忆起她曾经是如何在离壁画只有几英尺远的地方玩耍的。

"She would constantly be digging in the mud. And it was right below the kitchen windows, so we could always keep an eye on her," he says.

“她会不停地在泥里挖洞。而且就在厨房窗户的正下方，所以我们可以一直盯着她，”他说。

"The tree that was there was this beautiful maple⁶ that just made everything in the kitchen red."

“那里的那棵树是一棵美丽的枫树，它把厨房里的一切都染成了红色。”

Eleanor herself returned once to admire the painting. Grammer's work in Paradise has now become a movement.

埃莉诺自己有一次也回到这里欣赏这幅画作。格拉默在天堂镇作画已经成为了一项活动。

He has traveled the world painting murals in dark places that sorely needed some light:

他一直旅行于世界各地，在非常需要光线的黑暗地方画壁画：

an orphanage⁷ in Tijuana, Mexico; a youth ministry⁸ in San Francisco; a nonprofit for child sex-trafficking survivors⁹ in Cambodia.

或者在墨西哥的提华纳的孤儿院；旧金山的青年事工；柬埔寨一家非营利性的儿童拐卖幸存者组织。

"I want to do something powerful and create art that moves people," he says.

他说，“我想做一些有影响力的事情，创造可以感动人的艺术。”

Ironically, that first painting, on the chimney in Paradise, survived only a few months—the bulldozer is a cruel art critic.

讽刺的是，他在天堂镇的烟囱上画的第一幅画仅存活了几个月-推土机是个残酷的艺术评论家。

Grammer couldn't be more delighted. It means that the s

1 purely   

adv.纯粹地，完全地

参考例句：

• I helped him purely and simply out of friendship.我帮他纯粹是出于友情。
• This disproves the theory that children are purely imitative.这证明认为儿童只会单纯地模仿的理论是站不住脚的。

2 artistic   

adj.艺术(家)的，美术(家)的；善于艺术创作的

参考例句：

• The picture on this screen is a good artistic work.这屏风上的画是件很好的艺术品。
• These artistic handicrafts are very popular with foreign friends.外国朋友很喜欢这些美术工艺品。

3 shards   

n.（玻璃、金属或其他硬物的）尖利的碎片( shard的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Eyewitnesses spoke of rocks and shards of glass flying in the air. 目击者称空中石块和玻璃碎片四溅。 来自辞典例句
• Ward, Josh Billings, and a host of others have survived only in scattered shards of humour. 沃德、比林斯和许多别的作家能够留传下来的只是些幽默的残章断简。 来自辞典例句

4 lone   

adj.孤寂的，单独的；唯一的

参考例句：

• A lone sea gull flew across the sky.一只孤独的海鸥在空中飞过。
• She could see a lone figure on the deserted beach.她在空旷的海滩上能看到一个孤独的身影。

5 standing   

n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的

参考例句：

• After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
• They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。

6 maple   

n.槭树，枫树，槭木

参考例句：

• Maple sugar is made from the sap of maple trees.枫糖是由枫树的树液制成的。
• The maple leaves are tinge with autumn red.枫叶染上了秋天的红色。

7 orphanage   

n.孤儿院

参考例句：

• They dispensed new clothes to the children in the orphanage.他们把新衣服发给孤儿院的小孩们。
• They gave the proceeds of the sale to the orphanage.他们把销售的收入给了这家孤儿院。

8 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

9 survivors   

幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
• survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者