西部落：肚腩艺术

Belly¹ art

An Atlanta woman creates a unique artform with pregnant women's bellies².

I just always wanna those people who wish that I had something from my great great grandmother, whether they be a broach³ or just a note, just something from her. So I wanted to create something that my kids would be able to have from me and something very /personal. No bellies are * thing, feasible / to working on a 3-dimentional canvas that is supposed to a 2-dimentional flag canvas or wood. This makes it much more interesting, gives you a challenge as well as the interest of working with different media. The responses have been positive, um, remarkably⁴ positive. Women over the past 4 years, I have been taken pride in being pregnant, um, you see it everywhere.

4 years ago, women were, well they were wearing tint⁵ dresses, and hiding and you know they were shamed or just it wasn’t a pleasant experience for them, and that’s what the society had dictated⁶ / at that time. But we are living in a different age, in a different time, and women are just proud to show the world that they are pregnant.

It’s very different, you don’t usually see people, usually you have photographs but now you actually / get a visual, a 3-D image of your actual belly. Isn’t it expression of you yet, it’s memorable⁷, it’s something, it’s a keep stake I know. You have lots and lots of memories, memoires and stuff about the kids that I am constantly showing them now. So something like this for a lifetime to share with my daughter right now would be something so unique.

My all-time / favorite is the pineapple, this one particular customer of ours, she created pineapple through her whole pregnancy⁸ and she wanted her belly to be like a pineapple. It was just a matter of trying to figure out how to make it look like but actual a pineapple, which was for me pretty easy because of the rounded shape of the belly, which is , is, you know, kind of a rounded / shape of the fruit. Ultimately, it’s a blank canvas, and sort of a possible leaser endless we have some bellies that look like basin suits, we have some bellies that have more into other things like butterflies, and ladybirds, and you know fairies, and ballerinas, you’ve got angels, the possibilities are endless. For me, it’s art, art is art, so no matter what I am doing, whether it’s print making or photography or / painting, it’s still / my * experience that I have but I built up over this path, over 30 years, so you’re still getting in original piece of art whether it’s on the belly or on the canvas.

1 belly   

n.肚子，腹部；(像肚子一样)鼓起的部分，膛

参考例句：

• The boss has a large belly.老板大腹便便。
• His eyes are bigger than his belly.他眼馋肚饱。

2 bellies   

n.肚子( belly的名词复数 )；腹部；（物体的）圆形或凸起部份；腹部…形的

参考例句：

• They crawled along on their bellies. 他们匍匐前进。
• starving children with huge distended bellies 鼓着浮肿肚子的挨饿儿童

3 broach   

v.开瓶，提出(题目)

参考例句：

• It's a good chance to broach the subject.这是开始提出那个问题的好机会。
• I thought I'd better broach the matter with my boss.我想我最好还是跟老板说一下这事。

4 remarkably   

ad.不同寻常地，相当地

参考例句：

• I thought she was remarkably restrained in the circumstances. 我认为她在那种情况下非常克制。
• He made a remarkably swift recovery. 他康复得相当快。

5 tint   

n.淡色，浅色；染发剂；vt.着以淡淡的颜色

参考例句：

• You can't get up that naturalness and artless rosy tint in after days.你今后不再会有这种自然和朴实无华的红润脸色。
• She gave me instructions on how to apply the tint.她告诉我如何使用染发剂。

6 dictated   

v.大声讲或读( dictate的过去式和过去分词 )；口授；支配；摆布

参考例句：

• He dictated a letter to his secretary. 他向秘书口授信稿。
• No person of a strong character likes to be dictated to. 没有一个个性强的人愿受人使唤。 来自《简明英汉词典》

7 memorable   

adj.值得回忆的，难忘的，特别的，显著的

参考例句：

• This was indeed the most memorable day of my life.这的确是我一生中最值得怀念的日子。
• The veteran soldier has fought many memorable battles.这个老兵参加过许多难忘的战斗。

8 pregnancy   

n.怀孕，怀孕期

参考例句：

• Early pregnancy is often accompanied by nausea.怀孕早期常有恶心的现象。
• Smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of miscarriage.怀孕期吸烟会增加流产的危险。