我把南瓜刻成名人的脸

Inspired by pumpkin-carving genius Ray Villafane, I started carving pumpkins 6 years ago. As pumpkins only tend to be in the shops for about a month in the UK, I don’t get much chance to practice most of the year and it feels a bit like starting from scratch every October, although I think I am slowly improving.

受南瓜雕刻天才Ray Villafane的启发，我从6年前开始雕刻南瓜。在英国，南瓜一般只在商店里卖一个月左右，所以我一年中大部分时间都没有机会练习，而且感觉有点像每年10月都要从头开始，尽管我觉得自己正在慢慢进步。

I work from a photo, so the main challenges are firstly just how deep the pumpkin will let you carve without breaking through the flesh, and secondly trying to convert a 2D picture into a 3D pumpkin—my pumpkins often look quite 3D from the front, but from the side, can look a bit flat.

我从一张照片开始工作，所以主要的挑战首先是在不刺穿果肉的情况下，这个南瓜能刻多深，其次，试着把一张2D的图片转换成一个3D的南瓜——我的南瓜通常从正面看很3D，但是从侧面看，有点扁平。

I sometimes wish the pumpkins would last a bit longer when they’re finished, but the fact they are so temporary encourages me to carry on carving—if they didn’t rot, maybe I would have stopped after one I was particularly proud of, thinking I couldn’t do better next time...

有时我希望这些南瓜在制作完成后能保存得更久一些，但它们如此短暂的事实鼓励我继续切割——如果它们没有腐烂，也许我就会在一个我特别自豪的南瓜上停止切割，想着我下次不能做得更好了……

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