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We're recording on March 31st, 2021 for the Queens Memory project. Could you say your full name and spell it?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346#t=11.0,26.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346/transcript/31544/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nRute Ventura: My name is Rute Ventura. It's spelled R U T E Ventura, V E N T U R A.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346#t=26.0,35.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346/transcript/31544/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nMaryanne Olson: Thank you so much for joining us today for this interview. My first question for you is how long have you lived in Ridgewood?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346#t=35.0,42.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346/transcript/31544/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nRute Ventura: I've been in Ridgewood for 11 years. It's my third apartment.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346#t=42.0,47.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346/transcript/31544/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nMaryanne Olson: Great. What sort of art do you do?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346#t=47.0,51.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346/transcript/31544/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nRute Ventura: I'm a multi-disciplinary artist. So I work with video performance arts, sculpture and alternate it with figurative oil painting.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346#t=51.0,62.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346/transcript/31544/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nMaryanne Olson: And what made you want to become an artist?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346#t=62.0,66.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346/transcript/31544/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nRute Ventura: I always had this will of becoming an artist since I was a little child. I believe I was maybe in elementary school when I sort of had that call, from being fascinated with all visual arts, I would picture myself as an adult, becoming one of those special persons that create.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346#t=66.0,87.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346/transcript/31544/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nMaryanne Olson: Did you go to school or any sort of training program to become an artist?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346#t=87.0,91.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346/transcript/31544/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nRute Ventura: Yeah, all my education was done abroad. I am Portuguese, so I only came to America 12 years ago, a little bit before I moved to Ridgewood. I studied there, from high school already was specialized in arts, so I had that privilege to go to such a particular high school. And then after that, I went to college for sculpture and then fine arts.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346#t=91.0,123.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346/transcript/31544/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nMaryanne Olson: Great. Thank you. Who would you say are your biggest influences as an artist\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346#t=123.0,129.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346/transcript/31544/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nRute Ventura: I'm influenced by a lot of other artists. So, big names from art history, people that are no longer alive that I look up to, but also a lot of current contemporary artists that I'm able to link in through social media, like particularly on Instagram and they alongside with, you know, all the people that surround me, all of the spaces that I go to, you know, life itself, all of that combined, I think is the source of my inspiration. And I don't know, it just makes, it all kind of cooks up in my mind and, ideas and, visualizations, images start popping up.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346#t=129.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346/transcript/31544/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nMaryanne Olson: Could you talk a little bit about, what your experience was like being an artist and living in Ridgewood prior to the start of the COVID pandemic in 2020?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346#t=180.0,190.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346/transcript/31544/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nRute Ventura: Yeah. So, a lot of this pandemic situation actually, coincidentally, happened at the same time that I was going already through a very drastic, personal change in my life. So it all, it's for me, it's like a mark, really, because it wasn't just the pandemic. It was like a lot of other things were already in process of change a little bit before 2020, like at the end of 2019. So before I, you know, I make my living as a teaching artist, working for non-profit organizations. And on the side, on my spare time, I make my artwork. So, let me pause for a second.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346#t=190.0,245.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346/transcript/31544/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nNew Speaker: \n[Brief pause in the interview].\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346#t=245.0,248.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346/transcript/31544/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nMaryanne Olson: Can you talk a little bit about what your experience was like being an artist and living in Ridgewood prior to the start of the COVID pandemic in 2020?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346#t=248.0,257.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346/transcript/31544/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nRute Ventura: Yes. So before the pandemic hits, my normal daily basis was working as a teaching artist, like with something that I have been doing for quite a long time already. I'm also a mother, so that's part of my daily basis taking care of my child. And on the side of this, I was producing my artwork as I would go. The pandemic, when it hit here specifically in New York City at the beginning of 2020, it was a huge source of anxiety. I think overall, it was felt all over the city because, you know, it has eight million people living together. And I was at the time I was working in a few schools. So I had to not just go in there with one school on its own in one classroom, but the way I work, I work in at least about five different classrooms a day.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346#t=257.0,320.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346/transcript/31544/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nRute Ventura: So I'm like in contact with so many people. And that was like definitely creating a lot of anxiety in my life. But before then, I was also already going through some changes at the end of 2019 in my personal life. And, part of it relates to the work that I do as an artist, because I came to the realization that I was, that I was, blocking myself as an artist because of the fact that I'm linked to educational organizations. So I felt that I couldn't really be doing freely what I wanted to do as an artist because I was afraid of maybe being judged by the, this whole environment, the educational environment, or, and also maybe potentially be doing something or creating something that was considered to be inappropriate. So for, for many years, for about 10 years, I was kind of blocked in this limitation, until I decided, you know, I have to do something about this.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346#t=320.0,396.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346/transcript/31544/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nRute Ventura: I can't really not live my life to the fullest and, you know, feel this limitation. So my way around it was to change my name and I should, I hope I, I wish I would have done it before now. So my name as an artist is Rute Ventura it's my, my first and last name. But, since about a year ago, I told all the organizations that I work with, that I wanted to go by Rute d a Silva which is another name that I have in my Portuguese name. So yeah, so that change was quite special, you know, quite special that allowed me to start creating more freely.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346#t=396.0,445.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346/transcript/31544/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nMaryanne Olson: Great. So how, so you've talked a little bit about this already, but how else has the last year affected your life as an artist and also as an arts educator, what were some of the changes that happened as a result of the pandemic beyond what you've spoken about already a little?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346#t=445.0,461.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346/transcript/31544/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nRute Ventura: So in terms of being an art educator, there was, we were all without jobs for, for a period of time until organizations started getting it together and adapting to the online options that were the only ones available for, for so long. So this was a whole process of learning everything new. And specifically, when we talk about visual arts, we -- with these organizations -- we always would bring art supplies to the classrooms. So now we were facing this huge challenge, which is like, there's no art supplies because everybody's at home. And, you know, we can't, there's no money, one. And then also there would be like maybe too hard or, or impossible at the time to be sending art supplies for the kids. So we would just have to start creating lesson plans that would not require any specific art mediums that will just be with what, uh, found objects? At home things.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346#t=461.0,529.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346/transcript/31544/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nRute Ventura: So, so that was like, also very creative at the same time. So a challenge that doesn't necessarily have to be a bad thing. No? A challenge can be something that pushes us forward and allows us to find new ways, find new approaches. And I think we were pretty successful at doing it so. And in terms of my, art itself, you know, with the, with freeing myself from that burden of like not having my name being linked to, to the education. And then also like, like I mentioned, I was going through some pretty drastic personal life changes. I had a lot of pain, that was, concentrating for so long and, and eventually I put it through my art, you know, art can also, be used as a therapy. You know, you can, find a way of, putting your emotions, dealing with your emotions, you know, channeling them to an art form. So that's what I did, I specifically, around September, I made a video art piece that I called \"Isolation 2020\". That was a portrait of that whole experience. And so I now I'm trying to -- well, not that I'm trying to move away from that -- that just like feels a little bit more healed now. And so I'm working on different subjects, but, mainly I'm working on paintings at the moment. I'll go back and forward between art mediums and art techniques.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346#t=529.0,637.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346/transcript/31544/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nMaryanne Olson: Great. Thank you. I'd like to turn to a project that I know you've been working on this year, which is the Ridgewood Community Zine. I'd love to hear a little bit more about that. And I was wondering if you could start by telling us a little bit more about what a zine is.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346#t=637.0,654.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346/transcript/31544/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nRute Ventura: Yeah. So from, from what I know a zine is or how I would say a zine is, is a little book or little booklet that's a print out. You can, you can find zines that are black and white or colored, but this one specifically is a black and white zine. And, so, it is something that, I believe it to be artistic, and it would be like something that's not mass produced by, you know, a big company. So it's something that is like handmade in a way, of course, using the printers to print. But, you know, besides that it's all hand assembled and, kind of homely made. And in this case, what it -- actually the name of the zine is \"fanzine\", the full name of the word \"fan\" F-A-N, and also, it resembles the word magazine, right? So it's kind of like booklet the idea of booklet.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346#t=654.0,712.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346/transcript/31544/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nNew Speaker: And the name of it is actually Ridgewood Zine - cause you mentioned \"Ridgewood Community\". So the word community is actually not there. And it's a bi-monthly project that occurred to me, when I was -- I think it was also in September that I began the project. I was really looking for platforms to show my art and I couldn't find any platforms at the time. And even though I don't show my art through the zine because that would be unethical since I'm behind it, I, you know, that was the sense, and the idea that with which it all began, like find a way that is safe during the pandemic where artists can show their arts locally in this case. Cause it's all locally.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346#t=712.0,769.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346/transcript/31544/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nMaryanne Olson: That's great. Can you talk through what the process is each time you put it together?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346#t=769.0,775.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346/transcript/31544/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nRute Ventura: Yeah, of course. So, we're currently now with a third issue. So what I do is I leave a very big amount of time for artists to submit their art. So a whole month for submissions, and it's completely free to send in the art. Cause I also don't believe in, you know, someone have to pay to like someone look at my art, no. I don't believe in that. So, it's free to submit. And then I asked also local artists to curate it. So I'm not doing the curatorial process. So other artists in the neighborhood are. So there's going to be for each zine two curators. So it's co-curated. So there's a conversation right away. Then they select, these curators select 40 artworks and they also get their little biographies there's artistic biographies are printed in the first page and along with their curatorial statements, then the 40 artworks show up at the end. There's an interview of a local artist as well. And there's also a page at the end that's for the Ridgewood Tenants Union. It's like an info page. If people want to know a little bit more about the Ridgewood Tenants Union they'll have the opportunity to do it. So once the whole artworks are selected, I notify the artists, the artist has paid a small fee of $3 per image selected. And that is what then pays the curatorial process. Then I put everything together. So that's my work is the communication. I do all the communication with all the artists and I, and then on the end, I put everything together as a booklet and I bring myself to the store and print a bunch of zines.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346#t=775.0,899.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346/transcript/31544/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nRute Ventura: And currently they are for sale at Topos and Porcelain. So those have been they are very supportive stores in this area that, that have it and are happy to have it \n[laughs] it's going well so far. We'll see. I hope, I hope that we can continue and it continues to sustain itself, you know, because it's like, we need people to participate in order to keep it going right? And we need the people to be interested in collecting, of course this is not like big prints. It's not big amounts. It's very small, super small, but I do, also the idea of, of getting the artists to network with one another is what's really behind it. If I may say in a - this may not be even the part of this question - but I've been living in Ridgewood for a long time, but I haven't really gotten into knowing a lot of people because I feel like for me, it's so easy in New York to just kind of like live on your own and isolated from the world.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346#t=899.0,963.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346/transcript/31544/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nRute Ventura: So I always been trying to search for, for where, where can I find my communities and where can I start feeling that I belong? You know? And so this is also for me, is my, it's the initial phase of, maybe creating this sort of artistic community in the neighborhood. And so I hope, and I intend that in the future when things become a little bit better, that we can get all these artists together, you know, or invite them all at least to gatherings and to hopefully physical exhibitions of the projects that were once printed in the zines.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346#t=963.0,1005.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346/transcript/31544/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nMaryanne Olson: That's great. I definitely hear what you're saying there about sometimes having that hard time connecting with people just because of how busy we all are in New York. Do you think that in some ways the pandemic actually helped support the development of the zine in that sense in terms of people looking to connect?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346#t=1005.0,1027.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346/transcript/31544/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nRute Ventura: Yeah, I think so. It's funny you say that, I hear from other artists this as well, that people come together in times of crisis, right? So it's a little bit like that. And in, I think people in, in it's, it also makes sense that you'd focus more on the local versus because you're no longer going to Manhattan or, or at least I'm not, \n[laughs] you know, I don't know if people are doing that, but I sort of like, I let go of this whole big city and became more local. And I don't think I want to go back to the way it was before, because I feel good about the local work and the local creating the local identity is something that - it kinda invigorates me a little bit. And yeah, so having this -- first of all, having this interest from the local stores like Porcelain and Topos about the zine and The Acre also was, was interested at the beginning but they closed for the meantime, but they were also part of it. Having their interest of just like saying, you know what, this is, this is great. Yeah. Let's put it out there because then they're the ones who actually are selling it, right? So have that and have the people coming in these places and being interested in looking up at what folks are doing and what is going on in the visual art world, you know, in the microsphere, like right here, around me. Gives the opportunity also for anybody to show and for anybody that wants to share what they do, because sometimes you want to share, but you just don't know how, you know? So this is how \n[laughs] or it can be how.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346#t=1027.0,1152.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346/transcript/31544/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nMaryanne Olson: I think that's a great segue to my next question. That sort of, now that there's kind of a light at the end of the tunnel what do you hope to see both as an independent artist and educator, and also for the greater Ridgewood arts community moving forward?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346#t=1152.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346/transcript/31544/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nRute Ventura: It's hard to say, I mean, it's not hard to say actually it's becoming, for me it has been a challenge like as a visual artist for a long time, because, you know, I make my living as a teaching artist. So, I don't nec-, I'm not like affiliated with any galleries. I've always like been exhibiting my artwork through group shows and artist collectives. And I found that's a very interesting way and I'd love to see something like that happen in Ridgewood, but also, you know, being, doing it in ways that are conscientious, like, because we don't want, I don't want, I wouldn't want to see Ridgewood become Williamsburg or, you know Bushwick or something like that. Although we are very much connected and we know that things and spaces are in constant, development and they're not stagnated, you know, and neighborhoods change. But you know, so what I'm, what I'm trying to say is that yes, I do. I would love to see like some artistic community growing here, but at the same time, I wouldn't want that to be what then like just transforms this neighborhood into a space for, I don't know, for like this invasion of people from all over the place and, spiking all the prices and stuff that you see happening in all the other neighborhoods before. So that's like some delicate line there. \n[Laughter]\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346#t=1170.0,1286.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346/transcript/31544/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nMaryanne Olson: Is there anything else you'd like to add that we didn't touch on today about just the past year? About your experiences living in Ridgewood?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346#t=1286.0,1297.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346/transcript/31544/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nRute Ventura: I don't know. I'm trying to think -- for me, you know, I'm an immigrant, like a lot of us in Ridgewood are. I came from another country and I just, I found that Ridgewood was a very comfortable neighborhood for me. It reminds me somehow of home maybe throughout the, the Myrtle fairs there, then. Like this idea of like being able to, to have music outdoors and people going and enjoy themselves outdoors. Although back in my home country, Portugal, the parties would be, you know, going all night long. And so it's not, it's not so controlled. Here everything is super controlled. But you know, there's a sense of like a homey feeling in Ridgewood that's really lovely. And plus, you know, this neighborhood is beautiful, all these bricks, you know, all these orange colors, you know, it's very complimentary with the sky with a blue sky. So it's just perfect \n[laughs]. Love Ridgewood.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346#t=1297.0,1366.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346/transcript/31544/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nMaryanne Olson: Yeah and it's nice to have it. We're moving into spring to know that we'll be able to go outside again soon and see it all.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346#t=1366.0,1371.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346/transcript/31544/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nRute Ventura: Yeah, we have all these trees becoming green again.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346#t=1371.0,1377.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346/transcript/31544/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nMaryanne Olson: That's everything I have for today. Thank you so much for joining us for this conversation about art and Ridgewood and your experiences being here. And thank you again.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346#t=1377.0,1389.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346/transcript/31544/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nRute Ventura: Thank you. Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46945/file/120346#t=1389.0,1391.552"}]}]}]}