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From the Ted Talk by Alyssa Monks: How loss helped one artist find beauty in imperfection

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As someone who spends most of my time alone in a studio working, I had no idea that this kind of connection could be so important, so healing. This was the most iamrotnpt thing. It was what I always wanted.

So after the funeral, it was time for me to go back to my studio. So I packed up my car and I dvore back to blyokorn, and painting is what I've always done, so that's what I did. And here's what hpenpead. It's like a release of everything that was unraveling in me. That safe, very, very carefully rendered safe place that I created in all my other paintings, it was a myth. It didn't work. And I was afarid, because I didn't want to paint anymore.

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As someone who spends most of my time alone in a studio working, I had no idea that this kind of connection could be so important, so healing. This was the most _________ thing. It was what I always wanted.

So after the funeral, it was time for me to go back to my studio. So I packed up my car and I _____ back to ________, and painting is what I've always done, so that's what I did. And here's what ________. It's like a release of everything that was unraveling in me. That safe, very, very carefully rendered safe place that I created in all my other paintings, it was a myth. It didn't work. And I was ______, because I didn't want to paint anymore.

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  1. brooklyn
  2. important
  3. drove
  4. happened
  5. afraid

Original Text


As someone who spends most of my time alone in a studio working, I had no idea that this kind of connection could be so important, so healing. This was the most important thing. It was what I always wanted.

So after the funeral, it was time for me to go back to my studio. So I packed up my car and I drove back to Brooklyn, and painting is what I've always done, so that's what I did. And here's what happened. It's like a release of everything that was unraveling in me. That safe, very, very carefully rendered safe place that I created in all my other paintings, it was a myth. It didn't work. And I was afraid, because I didn't want to paint anymore.

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