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hi my name is sach hai visual artist a

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musician living in Berlin present time

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and here in Durham North Carolina with

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the National Museum working on celestial

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vessel so let's chill vessel is a piece

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made from approximately 250 Red Seal RCA

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victor 45s which I collected in New York

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around 2006 2007 or worse in mine to

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actually make the speech sister new as a

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form it's representing the voyage and

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basically the voyage from Africa to the

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Americas the Caribbean the USA the

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record and music have been so very very

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important within the African Diaspora

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the way that in fact through music the

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culture was held together I guess you

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know what what keeps me going on many

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ways is the is the ending endless

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possibilities and the discovery of new

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material to work with and the fact that

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I'm constantly in sort of like research

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mode in so far as like you know these

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issues pertaining to the African

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Diaspora and these issues of being a

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hybrid of being biracial of dealing of

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dealing with this I need to create it's

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just sort of like place

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expulsion I have to get it out because I

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just feel that this is this flow as if

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it flows in me and I have to let it flow

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out I grow I was born and brought up in

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the I was born in the fifties bassist

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he's born in London to an African

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Jamaican father and the white english

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mother from manchester my father from

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kingston beyond all of these issues that

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i'm constantly investigating in my work

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about class and race and identity

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politics there's always this hope of a

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utopian planet you know and very very

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spiritual existence and being I love

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beauty i love beautiful things and i

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love the challenge of of coming up with

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an idea and maybe not having the

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expertise and being able to delegate i

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think i've become a master delegator

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actually there's so many materials out

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there that I just don't know about but

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there's experts out there that do so i

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can just like get on a telephone and

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call them up and say hey how can i do

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this and then that way the work becomes

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limitless you know it's just totally

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unlimited in this and that's what's

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really really exciting I feel at home

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being surrounded by my African sculpture

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but then I go to Vienna and i have i

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have a total relationship with with

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baroque and Rococo and same goes on with

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music i mean i love to sit down and

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listen to Mozart's gluten hopkin shadows

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and then you know turn on kind of brew

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or bitch improve so it's my life is just

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like one big hybrid states in any way