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You can grow a house in four years.

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And in order to get there,

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in order to grow it, you need sunlight,

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rainwater, and not much else.

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A house like Sharma Springs,
on the day it was finished,

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five years before that...

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none of the bamboo in it existed.

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And so, if you can build
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what else can you do?

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And that's...

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- Let's take him.
Let's take him.-Pedro wants some mangoes.

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Yes, he does. Come on.

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When Clifford tasted the
thermometer, he thought it was...

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-Candy.-But, ugh, it tasted like...

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-Medicine. Medicine.-Medicine.

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If you erase the word
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and going away from a senseof
four posts and a roof,

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just as the basicsof how
to protect yourself...

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if you approach it from a clean slate...

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Hello.

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...it's really funto
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what kind of next layer of self...

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what kind of shelterdoes
nature want for us.

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And so, Sharma Springs to me it
reallyrepresents what a home should be.

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It's one of about 20 bamboo
homesthat I've designed

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for people in Bali and around the world.

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It really deliverson the general notion

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of the building being a small
fragmentof the world of your dreams.

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It's a house giving form to the
futurethat we would like to live in.

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What I see happen for peoplewhen
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is this sense of opening up.

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They're like, "Wow,
I didn't think this was possible."

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Because right now, bamboo,
it's not taken seriously.

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But I think we're starting to change that.

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Bamboo is a kind of
relativelylittle-used material.

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In the Western worldit's kind
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To be fair, until five years ago,

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I didn't know any more about bamboo
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In Indonesia it's seen as poorand
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Does this pole get in the way of that?

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As an Indonesian I see a
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that it cannot be made beautiful

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because our traditional use
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like house fences, something like that.

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But Elora sees things differently.

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- Yeah. The beautiful
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It has to be enforced at the site.

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Really, beyond my imagination.

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Every pole and piece of
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is four, maybe five years old.

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And you compare that
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where the wood took decades
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And then you talk about a
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then we're talking fossil fuelsthat
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So, in terms of a material resourcethere
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If there is, I want to know about
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Do you think it can feel nice,
with the off-- the balance of the inside?

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For me it's okay, Elora,
but we'll have to test it later.

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Yeah, okay.

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One of the things that interests me

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is the fact that Elora's
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And so, the kind of boundariesare
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Nothing is beyond the conversation,

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nothing is beyond possibilityas
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It would be cool if the structure,
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could stay beautiful and strongno
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We should think in three
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It's that thinking in thingsa different way

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produce the kind of
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See, I've just said--You've
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but I kind of feel there should
beanother word for what she does.

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Because it doesn't fit the kind of
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what I see as the normal,
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It's not building thingsin that
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It's evolving out of the
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She does what the bamboo wants to do.

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It's not coming from her mind,
it's not coming from her brain,

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it's coming from her heart and soul.

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It is a designer, the land, the trees...

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coming together as an offering.

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That's the beauty of what Elorahas learned

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from the people of Baliand
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I was actually born in Toronto,
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But I grew up herefrom
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We were a pretty far-out family.

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We were living on an
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without running water.

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We also built things.
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With bamboo, as it happens.

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Elora had a rice fieldout behind the house.

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She would be out there
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She had all her Balinese ceremonies.

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And she went to the temple.

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So she lived in that fantasy land.

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I was really, I think,
soaking in a lot as a kid.

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This appreciation of beauty,
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that is a central partof Balinese culture.

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Bali encourages the imagination.

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Elora was always incredibly
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At the age of fiveshe had
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She already knew that's what artists did.

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And she designed all her
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This was sometimes stressful...

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because she knew exactly what she
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It had to be exactly right.

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She already had that
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We just had to make sure we encouraged it.

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So when I was around eight or
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my mom started to build her own house.

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There was a spot on the
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"Okay, this is where you and your
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and so, what do you want to do?

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What do you want it to look like?"

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And I just drew my fantasylittle
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She drew it.

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It looked amazingly like
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My fairy mushroom house becamethis
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that I could have an idea and
thenmake it big and real and exist.

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I can only assume that it gave meextra
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that might actually seem crazy.

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I always felt like Bali was
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I also knew that it was not my home inthe
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Being a Balinese is a very
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And I'm not that.

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I think very early on I recognized

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that I was separate and differentand
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But so much of the appreciation
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and any talent that I have really
feelsso much that it came from Bali

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and from getting the
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And so I feel like I got somethingout
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Like, I needed to earn my childhood here.

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I had to translate it somehowand
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And to do that, I knewthat I
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I knew I needed to be,
I don't know, growing wings.

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So after finishing my fine arts
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trying to figure out what to do next.

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And I knew that New York was the centerof
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and scary, probably,
but excitingand worth giving a shot.

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Worth trying.

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So, New York, in our early days together,

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Elora was working in
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And I think it was really
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in the highest forms of design.

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A big moment for me was when I got a call

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because Donna had decidedthat
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about the prints and
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about two or three
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And she knew that I could paint,

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and so the creative director called
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And I said, "Of course."

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So I went to the fabric paint store

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and asked them how to paint on fabric.

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I had really no ideahow
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All of a sudden her arms started
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and she was brilliant.

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And that's what I think a true artist
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It was so wonderful seeing
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go down a runway, show up in photographs.

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Be hanging in a storeand
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That was really empowering,
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that then also existed in the world.

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I immediately recognizedthe
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as being like a sculpturaland
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She was working in space,
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and it was also tied in to feeling, right?

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She'd wrap a piece of fabricaround herself

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and the way that fabric would
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would create a space...

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that would make her feel a certain way

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and that was very much likemaking
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And in designing and buildingSharma Springs

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and planning how the walls should be,

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I thought about Donnawrapping
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What shape feels goodaround the human body.

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Finding a natural curvethat
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It seems so obvious to
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in spaces that are curving.

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For me Sharma Springsis about reconnecting

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to natural forms and materials.

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There are organic shapes all around us.

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So there's no place for squaresor
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And so a question that comes up so much

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when we're trying to find the
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or the right level within a
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The Balinese culture has a very
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of how bamboo can be used.

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We are bamboo people.

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From birth,
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this is cut with a piece
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And when you die,
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so that when you go into the
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and that will give you prosperity.

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So there's a lot of cultural
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but bamboo still has many stigmas on it.

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As a poor man's timber,
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as something that would get eatenby
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wouldn't last long outsidebecause of
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So that's why we are working
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We talk to farmers in different areas,

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and we encourage them to grow
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Because bamboo can grow so quick,
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but also the people,

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and then we have business with them.

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And they witness what we can dowith bamboo.

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If you don't harvest it right,

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and if you don't do the treatment right,

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it will not last long.

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That's what common people do.

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But with well-treated bamboo,

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if you can design it right,
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it will last very long time.

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All of this is reallya
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to any future bamboo industry.

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But because bamboo is seenas
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if we want to actualize bambooas
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in a major way...

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we need to create beautiful examplesof
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to inspire the future use of bamboo.

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We need to inspire.

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If you're gonna make something,
it's part of a story.

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It's part of a much longer story

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that started before you came
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and will continue long after.

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And at some point in New York,
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I recognized the significanceof
the continuum of that.

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She knew that the workshe
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was getting attention,
that it was on big magazines.

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And she knew that it
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the right thing as far as whatsomebody
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But it didn't really resonate
with heras well as it might have.

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I really came to understandthe
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and what that seasonality results in,
which is this sort of disposability.

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If a shirt just feels rightfor that season,

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and then it's done with.

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It stuck inside me,
and I think it bugged me a lot:

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The fact that what you're doingends
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And so I had no idea what to do.

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I was searching.

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But I knew that it wasn't gonna be
okayto just run away from something,

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that I needed to have
somethingto run towards.

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And what I foundturned out to be back home.

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My dad and stepmom had founded a
schoolfor kids from all over the world,

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Green School,

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and taken the stand to build
itentirely out of bamboo.

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It was an incredibly bold stand to take.

247
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Something that had never been done before.

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The word got out that,
"They're doing magic up there."

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Her father, John, pulled together allthe
right people from all around the world

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and said, "Let's make this happen."

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In a way, it was exactly
what I was searching for.

252
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It was this sense of doing something good.

253
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There was an opportunity to work with himand
in the team that had built the school,

254
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to try out making different structures.

255
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That was exciting for her,
that lit her up a little bit.

256
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You live in a magic land.

257
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Yeah, it is, isn't it?

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You could be in New York.

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Listening to the sirens.

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The team that came togetherto
build Green School,

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they were just going for it.

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It wasn't a formalized company.

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And then the school opened, and then what?

264
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The whole teamneeded something to do next.

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So they were looking for workand
trying to connect all the dots.

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I think the month that I got back to Bali,

267
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they were breaking
groundon the first house.

268
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And of the people involvedin
managing the team at that time,

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I'm the only one who
showed upat that ceremony,

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which I should have takenas a warning sign.

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Because pretty soon,
the entire team and the entire endeavor

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was pretty much my responsibility.

273
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Pending whether it's a
basket, based on the client.

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I really felt a lot of the
timelike if I didn't get out of bed

275
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and do the next thing,
this wouldn't be able to continue.

276
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I didn't have the hand skills.
I didn't have any skills.

277
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But Elora has the magic in her
hands, and she has the brain,

278
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and she has the abilityto pick up ideas

279
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that are falling from very high.

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As it became her company,

281
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it fell on her to look after everything,
from HR to finance to everything.

282
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And see how it feels.

283
00:20:46,914 --> 00:20:50,464
She's often stretched impossibly.

284
00:20:50,542 --> 00:20:53,632
I don't know what the measurement is,
but we have to figure it out based on...

285
00:20:54,171 --> 00:20:56,801
Did I draw it somewhere?
The water reflection.

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I didn't draw it. I didn't draw it.

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I was equipped to designin
the creative side of it,

288
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but in terms of the whole business of it,

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I was so often feelinglike
I was out of my depth.

290
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Questioning myself, and regretting
beinginvolved in any of this to begin with.

291
00:21:19,905 --> 00:21:22,565
...a whole other cascade of
problems, we have to consider that.

292
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Everything has been quite
tenuousand a struggle.

293
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But no matter the stressand
strain and weight,

294
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it couldn't ever quite comparewith
the idea of sending 120 people home.

295
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Taking that creative,
dynamic, chaotic process

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of anything that's pioneering,
it tests your character.

297
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Can you stick with your vision

298
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in the realities of business,
in the realities of the world,

299
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where everyone tells youit's not possible

300
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and that you have to fit into a square,

301
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and you're just anything but square?

302
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And so you try.

303
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And I thinkElora has really been persistent

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to really push a company forward in Ibuku.

305
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While building Sharma Springs,
I was slogging through the process

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because in the creative side of things,

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the whole interior spacewas
pretty much unknown.

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And it was a really interesting
challengeto flesh it out.

309
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In order to turn these gorgeous
shellswith beautiful structural techniques

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into a home,

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in order to keep the promiseof
that beautiful form...

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everything else insidehas
to live up to it somehow.

313
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We had to reinvent everything.

314
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Like, the fridge would bug
everyonewalking into the house.

315
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How do you hide that fridge?

316
00:23:03,509 --> 00:23:06,009
And what we found pretty quickly was

317
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that we couldn't really go
buydoorknobs and light switches...

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or even furniture.

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We had to make everything.

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Let's do this one first.

321
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Which one? This one?

322
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This one is cool, the new model.

323
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Are you happy?

324
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-Yes, I am.-Oh, yeah?

325
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Have you already ordered the rope?

326
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In our team, we're really grappling with

327
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how to best express and best use bamboo,

328
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both as its natural intact beautiful form

329
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and not mess with it too much.

330
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And then also just totally slice it
apartand chop it apart in different ways

331
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and find the propertiesthat
can come out of that.

332
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We gotta just followhow many spaces we get

333
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and whatever size they are.

334
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So much of what we do is just playful.

335
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And what do you think?
The shape square, or angled square?

336
00:24:12,953 --> 00:24:15,463
Yesterday, like this...

337
00:24:15,539 --> 00:24:20,499
Yes, like this. So, it's three lines:
one, two, and three. Here, here, and here.

338
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It's just fun to think, okay,
there's probably a good reason

339
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why they've always made a chair like
that, or a door like that.

340
00:24:28,135 --> 00:24:30,545
There's probably a good reasonwhy
that's usually the way it is.

341
00:24:31,388 --> 00:24:32,848
But what if it wasn't?

342
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What else would it be?

343
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It's an ongoing processof just
trying to reinvent the universe

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in a way that didn't exist before.

345
00:24:46,195 --> 00:24:51,615
I like to nickname Eloraas
a bamboo fundamentalist.

346
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Because every single part of the
buildingis made out of bamboo,

347
00:24:55,913 --> 00:25:00,253
even the things that are maybe notthe
most obvious to make out of bamboo.

348
00:25:02,294 --> 00:25:04,134
Each piece of bamboo is unique.

349
00:25:04,922 --> 00:25:07,382
It's the uniqueness that adds the magic.

350
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For example, the root of one
species of bamboo curves,

351
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and it becomesthis really cool handle shape

352
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that we used for several of the doors.

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For the headboard of the master bed,

354
00:25:22,105 --> 00:25:25,565
we simply sliceda big
beautiful pole of bamboo

355
00:25:25,651 --> 00:25:30,321
and the hollows insideare the
perfect spot to put your glasses

356
00:25:30,405 --> 00:25:32,065
or your earrings.

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00:25:33,909 --> 00:25:36,619
In Balinese, they call it <i>"taksu."</i>

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<i>"Taksu"</i> means, like, "the life."

359
00:25:39,873 --> 00:25:44,553
And if you can make the
bambooshow its <i>"taksu,"</i>

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then people will see the beauty of it.

361
00:25:47,881 --> 00:25:50,131
They can see life.

362
00:25:53,971 --> 00:25:57,681
Sharma Springs has this combinationof
the beauty of the material

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put together in a waythat
has a softness to it,

364
00:26:01,812 --> 00:26:04,362
which actually makes it work as a home.

365
00:26:05,774 --> 00:26:08,994
This house has a feel to
ityou gravitate towards.

366
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You just connect with it.

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00:26:10,904 --> 00:26:15,284
By working with bambooin
all of these different ways,

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Elora Hardy has taken the buildingof
bamboo structures to another level

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and brought to the world the possibilityof
what you can achieve with bamboo.

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...to be good and a good example,

371
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and to inspire many others,
not just to be better,

372
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but also to be better for
the Earthand the world.

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00:26:39,433 --> 00:26:42,193
For me, the chance to
designand build Sharma Springs

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was just this wellspring of opportunity

375
00:26:45,981 --> 00:26:49,361
to share what I felt Bali gave me.

376
00:26:50,861 --> 00:26:55,871
It's somewhere between giving back to Baliand
giving Bali to everyone in the world.

377
00:26:57,492 --> 00:26:59,792
After designing Sharma Springs,

378
00:26:59,870 --> 00:27:05,130
the Ibuku team and Elorahave
now inspired many people.

379
00:27:05,209 --> 00:27:08,379
- So if that curls this
way, it's nice.-Yeah.

380
00:27:08,462 --> 00:27:10,012
And this can curl this way.

381
00:27:10,714 --> 00:27:12,804
And make this the work space,

382
00:27:12,883 --> 00:27:15,553
and then put a spiral staircase here.

383
00:27:16,386 --> 00:27:18,136
Through the beauty of her design,

384
00:27:18,764 --> 00:27:24,314
Elora has made people feel

385
00:27:24,394 --> 00:27:26,734
like bamboo is incredible.

386
00:27:29,858 --> 00:27:33,148
At my company, as engineers,
we've begun talking to Elora

387
00:27:33,237 --> 00:27:35,067
about the future of bamboo.

388
00:27:35,155 --> 00:27:39,655
And I recently was approachedby
a big developer in London

389
00:27:39,743 --> 00:27:44,003
who has asked usto look
at a tower in London

390
00:27:44,081 --> 00:27:47,171
with the possibility of using
bambooas part of the structure for it.

391
00:27:47,751 --> 00:27:50,381
Five years ago,
that would never have happened.

392
00:27:50,963 --> 00:27:54,683
So there is an enormous
changein the attitude towards it

393
00:27:54,758 --> 00:27:57,048
and the things you can do with it.

394
00:27:59,972 --> 00:28:02,312
I used to think, "Bamboo is simple."

395
00:28:03,725 --> 00:28:09,765
But after seeing Sharma
Springsand working with Elora,

396
00:28:09,857 --> 00:28:13,397
it really changed my perception.

397
00:28:14,611 --> 00:28:18,161
I would say thatl'm kind of
falling in love with bamboo.

398
00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:20,660
I like those middle parts. This one, Papa.

399
00:28:21,451 --> 00:28:24,871
Which one? Ah, here. Doesn't it look
nice, the interlocking bamboo?

400
00:28:24,955 --> 00:28:27,995
That's why sometimes I take my sons

401
00:28:28,083 --> 00:28:34,633
to our projects so that they
can seethe beauty of the bamboo.

402
00:28:34,715 --> 00:28:37,545
This is, "This could be
your future someday."

403
00:28:38,218 --> 00:28:42,008
The future of Bali and Indonesia,
and also the world, I think.

404
00:28:43,182 --> 00:28:44,392
Did you see our new sink?

405
00:28:45,809 --> 00:28:47,229
Did you see that beautiful new sink?

406
00:28:47,311 --> 00:28:51,361
I think that becoming a motherbrings
to light the preciousness of time.

407
00:28:54,109 --> 00:28:55,649
So much more is at stake.

408
00:28:56,820 --> 00:29:01,030
So, earlier this year, we decidedto
add an extension onto our home.

409
00:29:02,201 --> 00:29:06,581
It's a one-story black bamboo space.

410
00:29:07,122 --> 00:29:11,592
And I just hope that if
Nayancan come inside of our home

411
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and feel like it's partof
the natural world...

412
00:29:15,464 --> 00:29:17,094
What do you think?

413
00:29:17,174 --> 00:29:20,014
...that there's no
separationbetween him and nature...

414
00:29:21,678 --> 00:29:26,138
then I've taught him that the world is...

415
00:29:28,810 --> 00:29:30,900
that the world is something he can impact.

416
00:29:32,940 --> 00:29:37,320
When he has ideas about things,
that he could believe it was possible.

417
00:29:37,402 --> 00:29:41,322
Because if you can growa
clump of bamboo in five years

418
00:29:41,406 --> 00:29:45,866
and build a house that sparkssomething
wild in the imagination...

419
00:29:51,708 --> 00:29:54,548
...and makes you feel
differentlyabout the world,

420
00:29:54,628 --> 00:29:57,628
then what else is possible?

421
00:30:05,305 --> 00:30:08,305
A house like Sharma
Springsis about recognizing

422
00:30:08,392 --> 00:30:11,352
that there are different
waysof looking at a situation

423
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to find a different paththrough the forest.

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