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00:04 --> 00:07 [Ambient music begins playing.]
00:12 --> 00:14 [The garage door clatters up.]
00:20 --> 00:22 [A piano melody joins the music.]
00:23 --> 00:26 [The gas range begins ticking.]
00:28 --> 00:32 Audim: When I finished grad school, I didn’t necessarily want to be a teacher,
00:33 --> 00:37 and I didn’t necessarily want to move to New York.
00:39 --> 00:42 Audim: You need to figure out what you really want to do and, you know,
00:42 --> 00:47 what’s going to make you happy and the kind of art you want to make.
00:47 --> 00:53 Audim: My work has always been very personal, and so transitioning and starting our own business
00:53 --> 00:58 and photographing us doing the things that we do daily is so natural to me.
00:59 --> 01:01 It does not feel like work.
01:01 --> 01:03 [The van’s doors loudly shut.]
01:04 --> 01:09 Audim: I was raised in a family where we were told that we could be whoever we wanted to be.
01:12 --> 01:16 Ivy: As an artist, there’s not always going to be a job for you,
01:16 --> 01:19 so sometimes you need to make your own job.
01:20 --> 01:23 Audim: With both of our backgrounds in art combined,
01:23 --> 01:28 it was just sort of like, let’s start a furniture business and see if we can make it work.
01:30 --> 01:34 [The music fades away, giving way to the sound of a saw cutting wood.]
01:35 --> 01:37 [Ambient music rises.]
01:43 --> 01:46 [A meditative piano melody begins playing.]
01:52 --> 01:55 Audim: I feel really connected to what I do on a daily basis.
01:55 --> 01:57 I don’t rush through anything.
01:57 --> 01:59 I’m not a fast worker.
01:59 --> 02:00 I’m a thorough worker.
02:00 --> 02:02 I’m a hard worker.
02:02 --> 02:06 And I can’t imagine working for someone else at this point.
02:06 --> 02:07 [The sound of sawing.]
02:07 --> 02:09 Ivy: I’d say that we’re both learners.
02:10 --> 02:12 We’re both enthusiastic learners,
02:12 --> 02:15 and that’s what we enjoy the most.
02:16 --> 02:18 [The sound of polishing.]
02:20 --> 02:23 [The ambient music slows.]
02:26 --> 02:30 Audim: Ivy and I first started collaborating on my thesis show.
02:30 --> 02:34 We had really just met, and I started photographing her.
02:34 --> 02:35 [The music rises again.]
02:36 --> 02:40 It was pretty much me documenting us falling in love.
02:40 --> 02:47 We made the frames for every piece together, so not only was the piece me photographing
02:47 --> 02:54 Ivy and her responding that relationship, but it was also … the final presentation
02:54 --> 02:56 was both of us.
02:57 --> 02:58 Ivy: I still love them.
02:59 --> 02:59 I love those.
03:00 --> 03:03 I wish you were still doing that same show every day.
03:04 --> 03:05 Audim: Oh, that’s sweet.
03:07 --> 03:10 Audim: We really prioritize photography.
03:10 --> 03:16 Gaining the skills that I did as an MFA has really benefited our business extremely directly.
03:18 --> 03:24 Audim: There are so many talented woodworkers out there, making incredible work every day.
03:24 --> 03:27 But not all of them have photography skills.
03:27 --> 03:32 Ivy: In the realm of today’s marketing and social media,
03:33 --> 03:37 what we put out there — which is Audi’s photography — is the face of our business.
03:38 --> 03:39 It’s what gets us more business.
03:39 --> 03:41 It’s what keeps us afloat.
03:41 --> 03:45 Without her pictures of our work, it’s all a wash.
03:45 --> 03:49 [The music changes to a slow, bittersweet piano melody.]
03:56 --> 03:58 Audim: Yeah, bring your feet up.
03:58 --> 03:59 I like that.
04:00 --> 04:05 Audim: Photographing us doing the things that we do daily is so natural to me.
04:05 --> 04:06 It does not feel like work.
04:06 --> 04:10 It’s my favorite part of this job, really,
04:10 --> 04:16 pulling Ivy aside at the end of the day and asking her to,
04:17 --> 04:20 I don’t know, do something funny with the piece we just finished.
04:21 --> 04:24 Audim: It’s all very playful for us.
04:24 --> 04:30 And that’s the kind of art I made, and then that’s how I also contribute towards the
04:30 --> 04:31 marketing of our business.
04:33 --> 04:38 Audim: All right, I’m going to set the self-timer, and I’m going to come in there with you.
04:40 --> 04:42 [A cymbal splashes, and the music rises again.]
04:42 --> 04:46 Audim: We still like each other, after five and a half years of being in business together,
04:46 --> 04:49 and almost eight years of being partners.
04:49 --> 04:52 Ivy: Most people say, “Oh my god.
04:52 --> 04:53 "How do you do it?"
04:53 --> 04:55 "How do you work with your partner?”
04:55 --> 04:58 How do people not work with their partners?
04:58 --> 05:00 This is my favorite person in the whole world.
05:01 --> 05:02 Why would I not involve her?
05:03 --> 05:05 Audim: I just wouldn’t have it any other way.
05:05 --> 05:09 [The music slows, and begins to fade away.]
