PBS高端访谈:艺术的真情流露

 　　MARTIN FLETCHER:They pass like strangers in the night – they are strangers in the night.

　　Until 48th and 9th in Manhattan, where we recently came across an unusual exhibit at the Fountain Art Gallery. It asked people: What’s your story?

　　It said: Slow down a moment. Write something from your life. It’s all part of the “The Strangers Project” that began four years ago.

　　Many people writing things that are hard to say aloud…or to someone you know … or a friend … or family.

　　Like:

　　Today is my father’s birthday, he is 49, some few years ago (at least ten) he shot a man. He shot a man that died maybe ten years ago on his birthday…. Happy birthday Daddy, I love you. Forgive yourself. I do.

　　MARTIN FLETCHER: The Strangers Project volunteers ask people to write their story – even if at first they don’t think they have one. So far the founder¹

　　Brandon Doman has collected seven thousand intimate moments. Getting people to share, anonymously², maybe to relieve themselves of a burden. To find common ground - even with strangers.

　　For Doman, it’s a form of art. Getting people to pay attention to each other.

　　BRANDON DOMAN: I think we have a really big desire to be heard. We have a lot of ways to sort of broadcast nowadays with social media and all that's great, I think. But I think we-- there's sort of a deficit³ in just feeling emotionally heard sometimes.

　　MARTIN FLETCHER: Timothy Tobias from Brooklyn wrote about Trayvon Martin, an issue he’d been thinking a lot about.

　　TIMOTHY TOBIAS:It was therapeutic⁴ for me in that sense. It gives you a sense of someone’s listening, right, even though these are strangers, right?

　　MARTIN FLETCHER: Yes strangers, but each story makes them feel a little bit less alone. Like this lady from the Bronx:

　　Born in the Bronx, mom remarried 3 times. Her husband was abusive and made life very difficult. Had a boyfriend for 5 years from 15-20 years old who also abused me but I loved him dearly …I hope everything will be ok soon. My past haunts⁵ me.

　　And this:

　　My partner might be homeless in a few months. I am going to stay with her no matter what, but I am worried about what my friends and family will say. It’s not her fault. And I can’t just stop being in love.

　　MARTIN FLETCHER:The show hung about five hundred notes – some tragic⁶, some comic, some confused ... but all from the heart and each one a reminder⁷ to the gallery manager, Ariel Willmott.

　　ARIEL WILLMOTT: You know, you sit on the subway every day and there’s a mother screaming at her child and you’re like, oh god, I wish this mother would stop. But you know, if you take a moment to think, well, who knows what her day or what her life looks like -- you know, everybody has a story.”

　　MARTIN FLETCHER: Like this one –

　　I’m mourning the loss of my kids being little.

　　Here, An eighteen-year-old girl counts the boys she’s slept with – sixteen. And one girl. And one threesome, too.

　　Some reveal their pain through drawings. through the tears someone quotes the poet, ‘the world is not made out of atoms. It is composed of tiny stories.’

　　BRANDON DOMAN:You know, yeah, you don’t need to write a lot of words to tell a story. This was a gentleman who walked by and asked what I was doing and I explained the project to him. He was probably in his sixties. And we talked for a few minutes, and then he decided⁸ to walk off. And about twenty minutes later he came back. And he asked if he could share something. And I said, of course, that’s why I’m here. And it’s just a single line, and he just wrote “I am surviving brain cancer. So far.” And I feel like there’s just so much in that, you know. Two little sentences on one line.

　　MARTIN FLETCHER: Calls for help? For attention? Relieving pain by baring the soul? Brandon Doman says it best.

　　BRANDON DOMAN:I think we should be more emotionally open, and I think this is a good way for people to practice that.”

　　MARTIN FLETCHER: Healing our world - story by story.

1 Founder   

n.创始者，缔造者

参考例句：

• He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。
• According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说，罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。

2 anonymously   

ad.用匿名的方式

参考例句：

• The manuscripts were submitted anonymously. 原稿是匿名送交的。
• Methods A self-administered questionnaire was used to survey 536 teachers anonymously. 方法采用自编“中小学教师职业压力问卷”对536名中小学教师进行无记名调查。

3 deficit   

n.亏空，亏损；赤字，逆差

参考例句：

• The directors have reported a deficit of 2.5 million dollars.董事们报告赤字为250万美元。
• We have a great deficit this year.我们今年有很大亏损。

4 therapeutic   

adj.治疗的，起治疗作用的；对身心健康有益的

参考例句：

• Therapeutic measures were selected to fit the patient.选择治疗措施以适应病人的需要。
• When I was sad,music had a therapeutic effect.我悲伤的时候，音乐有治疗效力。

5 haunts   

v.（鬼魂）出没( haunt的第三人称单数 )；经常出没于；（不快的事情）萦绕于脑际；长期不断地缠扰（某人）

参考例句：

• A headless rider haunts the country lanes. 一个无头骑士常出没于乡间的小路上。
• This is a problem that haunts all of us. 这是一个使我们大家都担忧不已的问题。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 tragic   

adj.悲剧的，悲剧性的，悲惨的

参考例句：

• The effect of the pollution on the beaches is absolutely tragic.污染海滩后果可悲。
• Charles was a man doomed to tragic issues.查理是个注定不得善终的人。

7 reminder   

n.提醒物，纪念品；暗示，提示

参考例句：

• I have had another reminder from the library.我又收到图书馆的催还单。
• It always took a final reminder to get her to pay her share of the rent.总是得发给她一份最后催缴通知，她才付应该交的房租。

8 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。