PBS高端访谈:花朵为病人带来希望（在线收听）

JUDY WOODRUFF: In this time of social distancing, artists, athletes, musicians all over the country are trying to find new ways to channel their energies. William Brangham brings us this portrait of one artist in California who's trying to help people who are sick. It's part of our ongoing art series, Canvas.

TUCKER NICHOLS, Artist, Flowers For Sick People: The crisis that we're facing is really twofold. It's a health crisis, but it's also a crisis of isolation. My name is Tucker Nichols. I'm an artist based in San Rafael, California. For anyone who's been very sick before, the actual experience of being sick as itself incredibly isolating. Flowers For Sick People is a really simple project where I send flowers, paintings of flowers, to people who are ill right now from their loved ones. I have a simple Web site, Flowers For Sick People. You just send me the name and address of someone who is sick, and I will make a small flower painting, and send it off to them. There's no messages. There's no -- it says who it's from and who it's to. It's a totally free service. It just arrives in the mail unannounced. Right now, I'm still putting them all in envelopes and hand-addressing them. But I may move to postcards if I can't keep up with the requests. Increasingly, the requests that I'm getting are more and more related to the virus and to people who are sick and suffering from the virus. So, it's really become this portrait of what people are going through and how cut off they feel from the people who they're trying to take care of. I realized that you can't send flowers to everyone who deserves them. So, I started posting images of flower drawings on my Web site and on social media as sort of tributes to segments of the population at large. Flowers for the ventilator operators. Flowers for the hospital janitors. Flowers for the barehanded mail carrier. And then also ones that were kind of about everyone's experience of being inside. Flowers to the neighbor who sits in her window on patrol. Flowers for elastic waistbands. Flowers for the dishwasher. Flowers for you, if you are the dishwasher. Flowers I have been posting are really an attempt for me to connect with other parts of the world, other people out there who are having similar thoughts that I'm having, or thinking about other segments of the population. Flowers for someone who left in an ambulance, but still no update. Flowers for the kids who are realizing none of the grownups know how this is going to play out. Flowers for the frazzled woman at the post office directing the other customers to maintain their six-foot perimeters, while trying to keep her place in line. Just sort of say, hey, we're all in this together. We're all having some common experiences, even while we're so isolated. We're all experiencing that. We're all waking up and thinking, how do I do this? Flowers for New York City. Flowers for anyone at any hospital for any reason. Flowers for your mother. Flowers for anyone stuck at home without flowers today.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Wow, do we need that. And one additional note: All the video for that story was filmed by Tucker's daughter, 9-year-old Ada Nichols. Thank you.

朱迪·伍德拉夫：保持社交距离的这段时间里，世界各地的艺术家、运动员、音乐家都在尝试新的聚焦点。威廉·布朗汉姆将为我们带来加州一位艺术家的报道，这位艺术家正在努力帮助患者。本期节目是帆布系列报道的部分艺术文化的部分内容。

塔克·尼古拉斯，艺术家，“送给患者的鲜花”的作者：我们正在经历的这场危机是双重危机，既是一场健康危机，也是隔离的危机。我是塔克·尼古拉斯。我是加州圣拉斐尔的一名艺术家。生过病的人应该都有体会——生病的体验本身就特别难为外人道。“送给患者的鲜花”是一个很简单的项目，我会把来自爱人们的鲜花和鲜花的画给病人。我为此做了一个简单的网站。大家可以把患者的姓名和地址发给我，我会做一幅关于花的小花并发给他们。上面没有留言，不会知道是谁发给谁的。这项服务是免费的。在突然出现在邮箱里。目前的话，我是把这些都放在信封里手动邮寄寄给他们的。不过，如果需求应接不暇的话，我可能会改为明信片。我收到的需求越来越多都跟疫情有关，跟新冠患者有关。所以，这个过程让我感受到人们经历的事情以及他们与自己照顾的人之间的距离。我发现值得收到花的人无法全都收到花。于是，我开始在网站和社交媒体上放与花有关的花，作为给大家的礼物。有给呼吸机操作员的，有给医院门卫的，有给邮递员的。也有给疫情之中平凡你我他的。有给坐在窗前观察外面的邻居的，也有橡筋裤头的花，洗碗机的花。给你的花，如果你是洗碗机。我送花真地是我在尝试跟世界的其他地方相互连接，是跟那些与我有相似想法的人的连接，我们都关心着其他人。有的花留在了救护车里，没有后文。也有给意识到大人们不知道事态将如何发展的孩子们的花。给邮局里告诉其他人要保持6英尺距离的疲惫女人的花，她在叮嘱别人的同时也要求着自己。这就像在说，我们是命运共同体。我们有相似的经历，虽然要保持着特殊的距离。我们都在经历这境遇。我们都在思考如何应对这境遇。给纽约市的花，给医院里任何人的花，给母亲们的花，给今天困在家里看不到花的人的花。

朱迪·伍德拉夫：哇哦，我们也需要花。温馨提示：今天的故事由塔克9岁的女儿艾达拍摄。谢谢。