萨瓦亚乐高积木雕塑艺术
发布: 2009-11-03 10:09 | 作者: cnnas | 来源: 大风车中英文门户网站社区
Lego art: sculptures by Nathan Sawaya
曾经的律师Nathan Sawaya用一块一块的乐高积木为自己搭建了一个新的职业生涯，他迷人的乐高艺术作品能卖数千美元。
Former lawyer Nathan Sawaya has built himself a new career brick by brick, by selling off his amazing pieces of Lego art for thousands of dollars
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发源地：丹麦
作为品牌的乐高，“LEGO”是丹麦语“leg godt”的合成品，意思是“play well”(玩得好)，在拉丁语里，这个词的意思是“I put together”(我把它们砌好了)。乐高用“play on”(一直玩)作为品牌的自我表述，与“LEGO”“play well”的品牌含义一脉相承。
乐高积木现在已是儿童喜爱的玩具。这种塑料积木一头有凸粒，另一头有可嵌入凸粒的孔，形状有1300多种，每一种形状都有12种不同的颜色，以红、黄、蓝、白、黑为主。它靠小朋友自己动脑动手，可以拼插出变化无穷的造型，令人爱不释于，被称为“魔术塑料积木”。乐高积木的故乡就在丹麦。
乐高积木的发明者是奥勒•基奥克，他1891年生于丹麦比隆附近的菲尔斯哥夫村。他有一手精湛的木匠手艺，年轻时就热衷于制作各种小玩具，出自他手的小飞机、汽车、动物个个形态逼真、惟妙惟肖。尽管他不懂经商，玩具经常滞销，但这并未使他放弃自己的爱好。后来，他设计的拼插玩具“约约”终于风靡一时。1934年，他为自己的积木玩具设计了“乐高”商标。
萨瓦亚，36岁，放弃了稳定的工作和一个每月六位数的薪水，跟随儿时的梦想，使世界著名的儿童玩具成了一门艺术
Sawaya, 36, gave up his steady job and a six-figure salary to follow a boyhood dream to make art out of the world famous children's toy
位于纽约的工作室萨瓦亚创作他的雕塑，使用他拥有的150万块乐高砖
At his New York studio Sawaya builds his sculptures using some of his massive 1.5million Lego brick stash
他说：“每件展品使用的乐高积木数量取决于该雕塑的大小，但是我曾用过最多的一次有大约50万块砖，”
"The number of individual bricks in each piece of art depends on the size of the sculpture but the largest piece I ever did used about half a million bricks," he says
自从2000年离开他在律师行的工作，他的雕塑现在的售价超过10,000元
Since giving up a job in corporate law in 2000 his sculptures now sell for more than $10,000
他的作品，一些很复杂的，要花两年多的时间创作..
His pieces, some so intricate they take more than two years to build...
...他的作品是如此受欢迎，美国亿万富翁唐纳德特朗普也买了一个
... are so popular even US billionaire Donald Trump has bought one
现在，这位天才雕塑家计划来英国创作另一件..
The talented sculptor now plans to come to the UK to work on another piece...
“我很想在英国创作一件作品，也许我能为2012年奥运会做些什么”
"I would love to work on a piece in Britain, perhaps I could do something for the Olympics in 2012"
"I sculpted out of other types of more traditional mediums, like clay and wire, but about nine years ago, I challenged myself to create a large scale sculpture using just Lego bricks..."
"... It got a good response and I soon put together a few more pieces"
As soon as he posted photographs of his creations on the internet he began to get commissions from all over the world
"One of the more recognisable sculptures I created is titled Yellow, and is a life-size, three-dimensional torso of a man ripping his chest open with Lego bricks spilling out"
"My favourite project is always my next one. I truly believe I can build anything out of Lego bricks and I get excited about being challenged"