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From the Ted Talk by Sarah Sze: How we experience time and memory through art

Unscramble the Blue Letters


So I started with that experiment, I decided, by collecting materials that had a certain quality to them. They were mass-produced, easily accessible, completely designed for the purpose of their use, not for their aesthetic. So things like ttcoohikps, thumbtacks, peceis of teloit paper, to see if in the way that I put my energy, my hand, my time into them, that the behavior could actually create a kind of value in the work itself. One of the other ideas is, I wanted the work to become live. So I wntead to take it off of the pedestal, not have a frame around it, have the experience not be that you came to something and told you that it was intrmapot, but that you decosivr that it was in your own time.

Open Cloze


So I started with that experiment, I decided, by collecting materials that had a certain quality to them. They were mass-produced, easily accessible, completely designed for the purpose of their use, not for their aesthetic. So things like __________, thumbtacks, ______ of ______ paper, to see if in the way that I put my energy, my hand, my time into them, that the behavior could actually create a kind of value in the work itself. One of the other ideas is, I wanted the work to become live. So I ______ to take it off of the pedestal, not have a frame around it, have the experience not be that you came to something and told you that it was _________, but that you ________ that it was in your own time.

Solution


  1. discover
  2. important
  3. pieces
  4. toothpicks
  5. wanted
  6. toilet

Original Text


So I started with that experiment, I decided, by collecting materials that had a certain quality to them. They were mass-produced, easily accessible, completely designed for the purpose of their use, not for their aesthetic. So things like toothpicks, thumbtacks, pieces of toilet paper, to see if in the way that I put my energy, my hand, my time into them, that the behavior could actually create a kind of value in the work itself. One of the other ideas is, I wanted the work to become live. So I wanted to take it off of the pedestal, not have a frame around it, have the experience not be that you came to something and told you that it was important, but that you discover that it was in your own time.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
art work 2
graduate school 2
experience time 2
subway station 2


Important Words


  1. accessible
  2. aesthetic
  3. behavior
  4. collecting
  5. completely
  6. create
  7. decided
  8. designed
  9. discover
  10. easily
  11. energy
  12. experience
  13. experiment
  14. frame
  15. hand
  16. ideas
  17. important
  18. kind
  19. live
  20. materials
  21. paper
  22. pedestal
  23. pieces
  24. purpose
  25. put
  26. quality
  27. started
  28. thumbtacks
  29. time
  30. toilet
  31. told
  32. toothpicks
  33. wanted
  34. work