2021年VOA慢速英语 探索木工的艺术世界(3)

1、VOA慢速英语 探索木工的艺术世界(3) VOA慢速英语：探索木工的艺术世界 VOICE ONE: The workshop is filled with _ny tools and _chine parts. On one wall there are shelves filled with roughly cut wooden bowls that are drying out. Allowing the wood to dry helps guarantee that it will not change shape later on. Before turning the bowl t

2、hin Mister Brown puts a layer of epoxy paint _terial over the roughly cut bowl. This hardens areas of the wood that might be softer or contain fungus. Then, Mister Brown pla _s the bowl on his lathe. (SOUND) VOICE TWO: The lathe turns the wood quickly. Using a long metal tool called a gouge, Mister

3、Brown slowly cuts away at the wooden form. With great skill he slowly keeps cutting away until the bowl has the right thinness and form. Then, Mister Brown uses rough sandpaper to _ooth the gouge _rks in the wood. As the wood bees _oother, he uses finer and finer kinds of sandpaper. He sometimes fil

4、ls any holes or cracks with a mixture of epoxy glue, sanding dust, and brown paint. Finished bowls are so _ooth and perfect they do not even feel like wood. VOICE ONE: Phil Brown shows his beautiful bowls at several fine craft stores and in art shows. He even has a bowl at the Renwick Gallery of the

5、 Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. Sometimes he sells works directly from his workshop. His turned wood bowls cost hundreds of dollars. Many people have collections of his bowls in their homes. Mister Brown says he is influen _d by the work of sculptors like Henry Moore and Isamu N

6、oguchi. He says he likes to _ke bowls that have _ooth su _ _s and that bring out the natural color of wood. His finely _de art is a _lebration of the life of a tree and the endless possibilities of wood. (MUSIC) VOICE TWO: This program was written and produ _d by Dana De _nge. Im Shirley Griffith. VOICE ONE: And Im Steve Ember. You can read and listen to this program o