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[crickets chirping]
[somber, melodic piano instrumental]
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[music slowly fades]
[crickets chirping]
[Dean] I live in the junkyard, where I was born.
And I grew up playing in these cars.
We’d use the springs trampolines and this and that.
[crickets chirping]
[somber, melodic piano instrumental]
[rasping]
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My mother and daddy started this in 1931.
Back then, it wasn't scrap. It was about sellin’ parts.
[water tinkles on metal]
Depression time, another dime a day made a difference.
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Some people has a feeling about their hunting.
I’m automobiles.
They like to get up and look at their guns.
I like to get up and look at my cars.
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You can look at the way a car
is rusted or faded or discoloured some way,
and you can see maybe a face in it,
or maybe a building, whatever.
Like looking at the moon,
you can see the Man in the Moon or the clouds,
you see different things. I see that in a lot of cars.
[crickets chirping]
[somber piano music resumes]
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[Mike] Met Dean across the road
when I was 15 years old. I'm 42 now.
I believe I'm-- I'm like one of the old cars.
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I would love to be polished up,
and cleaned up and moulded into a new person.
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[haunting vocals enter]
[sombre melodic music]
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[rustling]
People don't think they're useful anymore.
And that's one point of coming here,
it makes people feel like they can get out again.
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They can see what they've known when they were younger.
[crickets chirping]
[somber and melodic piano instrumental]
[Dean] Some people says that I'm hoardin’
but I’m not hoardin’.
I'm savin’ these cars so kids that never seen
these here will come look at ‘em.
It's art, nature and history.
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Art is the way the vegetation,
the trees and all, has grown through the cars,
and into cars and all, that's art.
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I walk out through the lot and,
no noise going on and you just-- you hear nothing.
[crickets chirping]
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[Mike] They're going back to the earth, most of 'em.
Most of ‘em is goin’ back.
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[chirping continues]
[birds calling]
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[engine whooshing]
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[dog barks in distance]
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[birds singing]
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[belt clicks]
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[dog barks in distance]
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[speaking in other language]
[rooster crows]
[children speaking other language]
[somber melodic music resumes]
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[woman speaking other language]
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[child giggling]
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[birds chirping]
[motor revving]
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[woman speaking other language]
Do you want to be in the photo?
[woman] No, honey, you're good. I like it with the blue, though.
It’s a nice contrast with your yellow shirt.
Ah, that's excellent!
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[woman speaking other language]
[man] Do you have change?
Change, change.
[man] Ah, thank you. What’s your name?
-Pete! -[man] Pete? How old are you?
-Ten. -[man] 10.
-Yeah. Yeah. -[man] And you live here?
-Yes. -[warmly] Ah.
[woman] Oh!
[man] Careful.
All right, well done. See if I can do this.
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[trees rustling]
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[birds singing]
[woman speaking other language]
[splashing]
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[woman speaking other language]
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[children yelling excitedly]
[scraping]
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[clucking]
[cheerful chattering]
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[sombre melodic music]
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[playful chatter]
[cheerful chatter]
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[music fades]
[metallic groaning]
[low reverberating drone]
[slow dripping]
[low reverberating drone]
[dissonant synth instrumental]
[soft footsteps]
[man speaking French]
[woman speaking French]
[man speaking French]
[metallic creaking]
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[man speaking French]
[door creaks then clanks]
[rustling]
[squeaking]
[hissing and sparking]
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[thud]
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[clanging]
[whirring]
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[spritzing]
[man speaking French]
[melodic instrumental music]
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[man speaking French]
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[speaking French]
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[speaking Spanish]
[birds squawking]
[man speaking French]
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[birds squawking]
[clanging]
[resounding clangs]
[hissing]
[sparking]
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[flames whooshing]
[man speaking French]
[metal ratcheting]
[hissing]
[creaking]
[clattering]
[man speaking French]
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[man speaking French]
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[birds chirping in distance]
[light piano music]
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[rattling]
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[squeaking]
[John] Just brings back all the memories
from the old days.
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Has meaning, a lot of meaning.
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These machines were very important to people
because it made their life a lot easier.
They spent a lot of money buying these,
so you weren't real quick to get rid of it.
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The farmers would pull these old pieces of equipment,
which is basically an old dinosaur--
it kind of looks like an old dinosaur--
pull it up on the hill and create a conversation piece.
We're losing a lot of our history and it's sad to me.
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[rustling]
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I have such an emotional connection to this place.
This is my home.
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We raise quarter horses and cattle.
[morose strings instrumental]
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When you work cattle, people really depend on each other.
Your neighbours really come to help you,
and you depend on ‘em.
If I'm ever looking for something really kinda special,
people will come out of the woodwork
to bring me what I need.
[clicking]
Okay, now don't-- Try to hold it.
[laughs]
Watch your feet.
[loud thud]
[jangling]
[man 3] Like I said, I hope that they'll work for you.
[John] They're perfect. Thank you, sir.
[man 3] Here you are, John.
Glad we could bring ‘em out.
Well, we'll get out of here so you can work.
[John] All right. Thanks, guys.
[man 3] And we have a birthday party--
[John] Okay.
[jangling]
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[hissing]
It's kind of interesting
to do these sculptures made out of the scrap metal
that's been left behind.
[zapping]
[tools whirring]
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Every one of those items is attached
to someone that used them in the past.
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It adds that little extra human element.
So each one of those pieces has a story of its own.
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I'm hoping that my sculptures can honour
those people that worked so hard.
They worked their fingers to the bone.
[grass rustling]
[metal clattering]
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[factory din]
[Saumya] We don't think about our scrap.
We consume and we discard, but we don't really think
about what happens with all the waste that we’re producing.
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All these pieces of our lives,
these metals and scraps and rubbers and wires
kind of find their own way to their grave.
[melancholic string music]
[factory din increases in volume]
When we become a photo journalist,
we come with the impression
that we’re really going to change the world, you know?
[chuckles]
[camera clicking]
When there are issues that bother me, the only thing
that I can do is photograph it and put it out.
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[camera clicking]
[plastic snaps]
It's good to know that it's being treated.
But on the other side, we also know
that there's such a big percentage
that we're doing nothing about.
[drill whirring]
We just either don't have the capacity
to deal with it, or we just aren’t aware.
[yelling indistinctly]
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Here, when you come, you realize everything has a life.
Despite the fact that we might not need it any more
doesn't mean that we can just get it out of our lives.
We might not have it in front of our eyes,
but it goes on to affect us in the longer run,
at a scale that we probably don't realize it does.
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In order to convey what that waste really means
to this Earth, to the people who are engaging with it,
I think it is important to bring in the human experience.
[banging]
[metallic tinkling]
All those workers tirelessly just segregating the waste,
doing the same job day-in/day-out,
cleaning up our waste so that we can be entertained.
People might not want to see it,
but that reality becomes undeniable.
[women chattering]
[Saumya speaking in Hindi]
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My goal would be to give a certain life
to the things that I'm seeing here.
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Even if these wires and all this metal,
even if these are not the prettiest thing you see,
when all of them get together, it's beautiful.
[low horn instrumental]
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Reusing and minimizing wastage has always
been a part of the culture here.
[metallic clinking]
My mom’s saris have become cushions,
and they've become runners, and they've become mats.
This is the idea that I find romantic, in a way.
Everything that's been a part of my life,
I can be attached to it, you know?
[metallic clinking]
With the use and throw culture, that emotional value
that you had with things is getting lost.
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We might say that it's impacting the environment,
but what it's really impacting is us as human beings.
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[birds squawking]
[motors humming]
[distant hammering]
[sloshing]
[engines humming]
[slow grinding]
[tapping]
[light splashing]
[metal groaning]
[man speaking French]
[squeaking]
[solemn strings instrumental]
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[man speaking French]
[water rushing]
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[strings crescendo]
[hissing and sparking]
[clanking]
[water gushing]
[squeaking]
[wind whistling]
[footsteps]
[thudding]
[John] When I get a lot of pieces,
you can see the old scars.
Like, where it's broken and somebody re-welded it,
or put a new piece over it.
The old timers, they like to take the time to fix it.
It reminds me of my dad.
He had a thing for scrap metal.
He never made things but he always
would make me look at things a certain way.
He made me look at things closer.
[rattling]
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[engine vrooming]
[clanking]
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All right. I think we're good.
Okay.
-I love ya. -[John] Love ya.
-Good luck. -[John] Yeah.
-Thanks for your help. -I'm proud of ya.
Dad would be proud too.
Yeah. It looks great. I’m excited.
I'll go to Mobridge and see it.
-Okay. -As soon as I can. Okay.
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[John] I started making my sculptures
after I went to college.
These wild cowboys and horses and cows
and going in different directions and lots of action.
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And then my Aunt Effie,
who is a very big supporter of mine,
was killed in a car accident.
Effie was the glue that kind of held us all together.
It really kind of changed things for me.
I moved down to where her husband
was living on their ranch.
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My uncle wanted to build a cemetery.
I cut up these little blue bottles that Effie collected.
I cut the ends off of ‘em and I put ‘em
in this cross so that when the light shine through it,
you could see the blue.
I wanted to build this angel for the top of the gate.
So instead of sculpting one
and casting it in bronze, I thought,
“I'll just make one out of found objects”.
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It all started with-- with Effie’s cemetery.
This explosion of creativity just hit me
and I started building these sculptures.
[bell tolls]
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All these different items that come from my friends,
family, ranchers, all these people
that I have a history with.
Whoever this item belonged to does live on forever
because it's in a public sculpture
that everybody gets to see.
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[birds chirp]
[metallic clanking and clattering]
[phone dial clanking]
[phone ringing]
[man ] It's like a field of soldiers, sentries.
They were very protective and they stood
on street corners and they were there
at all kinds of weather.
So to see it go, it's like seeing an old servant go.
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When people come visit, very often
they start touching the kiosks.
It's like when you touch a trunk of a tree.
There is the age to it, it’s got gravity.
So they feel that very definite connection to it.
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Originally, they were going to be scrapped.
There was no plan for them to be reused
or anything like that.
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We decided to buy up a stock.
We thought, “We can't let them go.
They’re just-- We can't just see these go away
and just go to scrap.
They've got to be more than that”.
[train rattling]
[somber and melodic piano instrumental]
[banging]
They're the opposite of how you make things now,
where your things are quick and disposable.
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[scraping]
It’s a number six kiosk.
G.P.O: General Post Office,
M.F: that’s McFarlane Foundry up in Scotland.
And 37/1.
That's the first quarter, 1937.
So this is a pretty early kiosk.
[scraping]
The more recent things are hard to restore
because they're temporary materials and plastics
and pressed steel, and things.
But cast iron is wonderful because underneath
all that paint and glass, it’s still there.
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If you could bring them back again
and get a second purpose of them.
It's nice to see the effort put back in.
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[high-pitched squeaking]
[low-pitched squeak]
We've restored about 2,000.
We see them used for defibrillators
and libraries and swap shops and galleries.
So, as an object, they're still viable.
[footsteps]
When I finish a restoration,
it's a confirmation of the faith that I had in the kiosk,
that beneath all this rust and decay and flakes
and smashed glass, that underneath it,
there is the original kiosk.
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[exhales]
You get the feeling that you're doing something,
you're bringing something back
and you're leaving something behind as well.
[romantic strings instrumental]
[train chugging]
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I think sometimes people just want something
to just slow down a bit
and just not lose everything very quickly.
[birds chirping]
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And they like that stability and security
of having an object.
It will always going to be unchanging,
something constant.
They’re like anchors with the past.
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[soft footsteps]
[gentle panting]
[exhaling]
[panting]
[Ed] We were actually going to restore
some of these cars.
And at the very last minute, our financing had problems.
[outdoor din]
[melancholy string instrumental]
Plan B was to put everything here,
and wait for the next opportunity.
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[metal groans]
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My first trolley ride was when I was probably
old enough to walk.
[bell clangs]
I was fascinated by the trolley,
the appearance of it, the clickety-clackety sound.
I’d stand up by the motorman and watch how he operated it.
[switches clicking]
By the time I was four or five years old,
I think I could drive that streetcar
as good as he could.
[whimsical horn instrumental]
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[insects chirring]
There's an interesting possibility with this car
from the Twin Cities that at some point
my wife rode on this car,
because she lived up in the Twin Cities.
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Even though we graduated from high school together,
we didn't see each other for 61 years.
[melancholy classical instrumental]
About four or five years ago, I reconnected with June.
And one thing led to another, and the rest was history.
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We had three good years together.
[somber piano instrumental]
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I'm moving primarily because my three kids,
it would be a lot easier for them to respond
to anything I might need.
Here's Iowa Trolleys.
Omaha, Nebraska streetcars.
[thudding]
There's a lot of interest in these cars.
June understood the reasoning for it.
Urban renewal.
When you put a streetcar line in,
all at once things turn round.
New businesses move in along the line.
Restoration of the buildings.
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I know that many of these can be restored.
[metal screeching]
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I sold these cars to Kenosha.
[operator] Oh, did you? How many of these do you own?
Oh, about 30.
-[operator] You own 30 of them? -[Ed] Yeah.
Right on.
[dinging]
[Ed] It’s very satisfying to see
these cars running again.
It just brings back a lot of good memories.
I've got a few more opportunities I'm working on,
and I have a feeling that one or more will be successful.
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[street din]
[Saumya] My biggest focus would be to have people
become a little more aware of their lifestyles.
[low chatter]
I'm not saying, "Abandon city life,"
but I think we can make more conscious choices
in terms of the materials that we're using
and what is the kind of afterlife it has.
[street din]
When I was young, I've seen this little factory
very close to our house, where once a year
everything would stop because that was Vishwakarma Puja.
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Everyone was supposed to worship
the machines because that is the source of income.
And that's the source of living.
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[crinkling]
[dripping]
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[chanting in Sanskrit]
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I’ll place them there.
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I find it fascinating that we worship machines
at a Hindu festival.
[metallic scratching]
The idea is to be grateful for the things we have.
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On the other hand, we also end up being very callous
towards the very things we worship.
Hello, everyone.
Thank you so much for coming to my show today.
These photographs that you see are a eulogy to modern life.
In my opinion, it's important to know
and understand what happens to the things
that we discard after they exhaust our use.
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They’re the people who least use the technology.
So what was their take on seeing so much waste being produced?
They said, “It doesn't matter.
At least we getting work out of it”.
Yeah, but that's true.
Like, what is waste for us is creating jobs for them, so.
[Saumya] Yeah, while we are trying to be philosophical
about this idea of our waste as being treated
by someone else, they’re so matter of fact about it,
you know?
As long as it's-- it gives them their livelihood,
they don't want to think beyond it,
which I think is fair.
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I think the project would be complete
when it reaches the people who engage
with technology in their daily lives.
[low chatter]
Even if out of, I don't know, 1,000 people
who see my photographs, even if five decide
to change their lifestyle, even that's something achieved.
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[wind whispering]
[rustling]
[John] After I found out that my dad
was diagnosed with lung cancer,
I just started in on this tree.
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[hissing]
I wanted to do a tree that looked like it had been
through a lot because my dad has been through a lot
in his life.
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It's twisting and turning and it's old.
Yet, it comes up to these branches that are blooming
little green sprigs of life.
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[metallic clanking and scraping]
There's so many things
that dad has brought to me through the years.
And I tried to put a few of them in there.
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There's an old man's face in the tree.
A lot of times people don't see the face at first.
It's like my dad's peering out of the trunk of this tree.
He always would tell me,
“Now, don't do a half-assed job”.
[laughs]
I know this tree is going to live forever
because it's made out of iron and it is made for my dad.
[rustling]
[melodic and whimsical piano instrumental]
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