新概念雙語：酷炫狂拽的沙雕 魔性又極具藝術(shù)

These aren't your prototypical bucket-and-pail sand structures. Matt Kaliner's creations deserve an architectural category all their own.

這些可不是你們那些水桶造型的傳統(tǒng)典型沙灘建筑。馬特·卡琳爾的創(chuàng)作值得擁有自己的建筑門類。

Here’s a tour of some of Kaliner’s marvelous creations—mostly built over the past decade or so along the beaches of South Boston—in his own words.

以下就是卡琳爾的非凡大作，據(jù)他自己安利，大部分建于過去十年里，或是南波士頓海灘。

“Although I enjoy watching the castles get swept away, I aim to make my castles more resilient to waves by using sticks ...”

“雖然我喜歡看著沙灘城堡被沖走，但我還是希望以用樹枝把城堡建得更有回彈力來抵抗浪潮為目標(biāo)……”

“Watching the castle rising above the waves is a real treat—and that's always when they look best.”

“看著城堡在海浪上‘拔灘而起’真是個實(shí)實(shí)在在的樂趣——而那也是它們看上去最棒的時刻。”

“I recently attended a talk by the incredible fabric-artist Janet Echolman, who relayed this great story about how cherry blossoms, like good ephemeral art, are so effective because they only last a week—they ‘call you into the present.’ I wish I had thought of that!”

“最近我參加了杰出紡織藝術(shù)家珍妮特的一次談話，她轉(zhuǎn)述了櫻花如何盛開，如同優(yōu)秀的轉(zhuǎn)瞬即逝的藝術(shù)，因其花期僅為一周而格外令人印象深刻——它們令你能夠‘感受當(dāng)下’。真希望我也能想到那些!”

“There is a spatial aspect to making castles that's always intrigued me.”

“制作沙灘城堡讓我仿佛進(jìn)入了另一個時空，無法自拔。”

“When I make a castle in working-class South Boston or Revere, people tend to avoid me, or look quizzically. When I was making this one [above] in Revere, an old man approached my group and asked ‘What are you kids doing, on drugs or something?’”

“當(dāng)我在工人階層遍布的南波士頓或里維爾造城堡的時候，人們常常避開我，或者一臉嘲弄地看著我。當(dāng)我在里維爾建造(上圖)這個城堡時，一位老人走近我的團(tuán)隊(duì)并問：‘孩子們你是干什么的，吸毒了么還是怎么樣?’”