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From the Ted Talk by Alwar Balasubramaniam: Art of substance and absence

Unscramble the Blue Letters


This is cllead "Gravity." It's called "Breath." It's just two holes on the gallery wall. It's a false wall, which contains like 110 cubic feet. So that hole actually makes the air come out and go in. So where it's happening, we can see, but what is happening will remain invisible only. This is from the show called "Invisible," at Talwar Gallery. This is called "Kaayam." Detail.

And what I'd like to tell you, our seness are so liitmed — we cannot hear everything, we cannot see everything. We don't feel, "I am tiunochg the air," but if the breeze is a little more faster, then I can feel it. So all of our crcsionouttn of reality is through these limited senses. So my request was like, is there any way to use all this as just a symbol or a sign? And to really get to the point, we should move beyond, you know, go to the other side of the wall, like illogic, like are invisible. Because when we see someone walks, we see the footprint. But if we're just cutting that footprint from the whole thing and trying to analyze it, you will miss the pnoit because the actual journey happens between those footprints, and the footprints are nothing but pasnisg time.

Open Cloze


This is ______ "Gravity." It's called "Breath." It's just two holes on the gallery wall. It's a false wall, which contains like 110 cubic feet. So that hole actually makes the air come out and go in. So where it's happening, we can see, but what is happening will remain invisible only. This is from the show called "Invisible," at Talwar Gallery. This is called "Kaayam." Detail.

And what I'd like to tell you, our ______ are so _______ — we cannot hear everything, we cannot see everything. We don't feel, "I am ________ the air," but if the breeze is a little more faster, then I can feel it. So all of our ____________ of reality is through these limited senses. So my request was like, is there any way to use all this as just a symbol or a sign? And to really get to the point, we should move beyond, you know, go to the other side of the wall, like illogic, like are invisible. Because when we see someone walks, we see the footprint. But if we're just cutting that footprint from the whole thing and trying to analyze it, you will miss the _____ because the actual journey happens between those footprints, and the footprints are nothing but _______ time.

Solution


  1. called
  2. construction
  3. passing
  4. senses
  5. point
  6. touching
  7. limited

Original Text


This is called "Gravity." It's called "Breath." It's just two holes on the gallery wall. It's a false wall, which contains like 110 cubic feet. So that hole actually makes the air come out and go in. So where it's happening, we can see, but what is happening will remain invisible only. This is from the show called "Invisible," at Talwar Gallery. This is called "Kaayam." Detail.

And what I'd like to tell you, our senses are so limited — we cannot hear everything, we cannot see everything. We don't feel, "I am touching the air," but if the breeze is a little more faster, then I can feel it. So all of our construction of reality is through these limited senses. So my request was like, is there any way to use all this as just a symbol or a sign? And to really get to the point, we should move beyond, you know, go to the other side of the wall, like illogic, like are invisible. Because when we see someone walks, we see the footprint. But if we're just cutting that footprint from the whole thing and trying to analyze it, you will miss the point because the actual journey happens between those footprints, and the footprints are nothing but passing time.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
air freshener 3
capturing traces 2
major role 2
cow crossed 2
inches deep 2
greater faith 2


Important Words


  1. actual
  2. air
  3. analyze
  4. breeze
  5. called
  6. construction
  7. cubic
  8. cutting
  9. detail
  10. false
  11. faster
  12. feel
  13. feet
  14. footprint
  15. footprints
  16. gallery
  17. happening
  18. hear
  19. hole
  20. holes
  21. illogic
  22. invisible
  23. journey
  24. limited
  25. move
  26. passing
  27. point
  28. reality
  29. remain
  30. request
  31. senses
  32. show
  33. side
  34. sign
  35. symbol
  36. talwar
  37. time
  38. touching
  39. walks
  40. wall