Depth Of Field - Harold Jeffries

 

If It Got Hot We've Got The Fan - Wayne Mazurek

"OK, that was our apartment right there. That has a fan. I would sit there and, and since I would look out the window and I could see, the court, the courtyard. Heh heh, not much of a courtyard but it was a courtyard, and the center sidewalk could allow people to walk out."

  

"Over here is our entrance. Uh me and my mom would walk up the stairs, in here, walk up that way, and I wind up in the apartment which is, right here..."

"...and we had our fan, inside one window, say if it got hot we’ve got the fan. That's kinda nice, huh."

 

Luke Always Knows - Marc Fischer

"Luke always knows. Luke pretty much always knows exactly what he wants to make, or he has ideas and he needs help executing them. He doesn't I think, expect that he should have to know how t do everything but that others should fill in some of the details and then he can put his stamp on it in other ways."

 

"I see it as my role to kind of help him fulfill that and we keep working on the project until he feels satisfied with the result, and then we move on to the next thing that he wants to make." 

Share My Kingdom - Harold Jeffries

 

"I draw kinds of Heaven; plans for the place I wanted to stay up in the sky, and share my kingdom with everybody, that's why."

Make, Believe. - Wayne Mazurek

 

"I'll pretend I'm heading west on Chicago Avenue. I'm about ready to keep going towards Humboldt Park. My house is almost there.Yeah I know, my house is almost there. I'm about ready to go past my old apartment. Huh, if the kids see my car though they'll say "Wayne, where'd you get that car?" I'll say I bought it in Schaumburg. Uh, I'll tell them I bought my car from Schaumburg. Nice. Ehhh, get ready to go up on the curb." 

Bach To Nature - Luke Tauber

 

That's Why - Harold Jeffries

Q: So how old were you when you came to Little City?

"I was actually around...seven. Seven years old. I was seven years old when I came to Little City. I was living at Pine Cottage. I was here by the state 'cause I needed help to take care of myself that's why. They noticed me disable retarded, that's why."

A Perfect Line - Wayne Mazurek

"Well, I have to think first. The first thing I do is think real hard, and then I put my thoughts into my pen. And ah, that's how I make a perfect line."

"I take my time doing it right so, if I go too fast I mess it up. I do it not too fast. I do it like anyone at the Ford Motor Company. I take my time to make it right."

They Were Forced Out of Their Home - Sidney Finkel

"Luke's father Eugene, they were forced out of their home, around 1942, and they were sent into a concentration camp as a matter of fact Eugene was in several concentration camps, together with his family. His wife and his two daughters and all his parents were murdered in the Holocaust. He was the only one who survived the war."

"Ah, my sister, I know a little bit more about her, she survived ah, the main thing was that in October of 1942 the Germans closed the ghetto, and they sent all the people on trains to a place called Treblinka where they were gassed. She was very industrious and very smart, and she was able to survive this huge round up, like I did and her brother and her father. She worked for a German economic unit, which was so called, but their job was to go through the belongings of people that left their homes and, and they would pack them up send them to Germany. When the ghetto was closed, she was sent to a concentration camp first in Poland, and then she went to another German concentration camp. She, she suffered a lot."

"I think she was liberated by the British Army, and she also went to this displaced persons camp, and that’s where Eugene, Luke’s father and Lola, Luke’s mother met and they, you know they got together. Eugene heard that his whole family was wiped out and after a year, they decided to get married."

People Are Smiling When They Have Their Masks On - Harold Jeffries

"It it's about, the whole thing is about laugh and fun and...people who are going  places to do things smile at their place. To do things over there. People are going to other places to do things because they don't have no shelter and having a lot of fun at the carnival that's why."

"Carnivals are fun for they're safe. They keep it so that nothing happens to you living. That's why. Cool."

The Legend of Sir Wayne - John Mazurek

 

"Our mother used to take us to museums a lot. She used to take us to a place on the North Side of Chicago, used to be on the Gold Coast area...and it was a house set up pretty much like a castle. It was full of suits of armor and bows and arrows, and long swords and broad blades, and all kinds of Medieval types of ah, weaponry and things. When we'd get home from being in that place, my brother would draw swords and weapons, and design crowns for kings, swords for princes, and arrows for the great bowmen that he could imagine fighting his imaginary battles."

"Okay, this is gonna be a short story about what a knight would do. He serves his, he serves his king very well. And of course, to become a knight, he must know himself. A hundred percent capable. I said, a knight must be able to fight for his country, and the king himself. And make sure, above all, be very kind towards females - well, the people who help the queen anyway."

                                                                                                                          Sir Wayne Mazurek

The Art of Dead People - Luke Tauber

"I like making art of dead people to remember what they looked like, before, when they were alive, so to remember them, as they lived, as they used to live. And um, making sure, that that um, all, all the um, making sure all the bodies, are in the casket. And, I hope all the um, caskets,  hold each other, all the, all, each body, in so, we can remember them, in in in spirit. And, and make sure,we can um, tell, them, how how I, tell my uncle that I like doing it."

One Man Show - Harold Jeffries

 Q: When you're working on something how do you know when it's done?

"I look at it. I look at it and it doesn't move that's why. It's fixed and all that kind of stuff that's why...it's fixed and it's nothing wrong with, having something to sell, that you fix forever. Replace the parts for decoration so you can get paid for it, that's why."

Q: Harold, when you make art do you make it so that other people could see it, or do you have other reasons?

"Other people see it for other reasons, that ah, they could see the whole thing and they could buy whatever they want so that's why. The donation make it so we get donations so we can, buy for the company and get the things that people need and people stay overnight and, it's brand new. That's why. Yeah."

Don't Leave Home Without It - Wayne Mazurek

 

Wayne is never without his sketch book. While on the road to the auto show, he wasted no time in designing a new concept car for Audi.

"My car’s the only one. I’ll say, “My car is the only one of a kind that has a power table.” And they’ll say “Wow.” It’s long enough. It’s long enough so you could put a shopping bag on it. They’ll think of that. The car serves as a shopping cart. Huh, put the grocery bags on the table, push a button and the whole thing slides into the car."

There's No Place Like Homage - Luke Tauber

 

At home listening to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

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