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From the Ted Talk by Antony Gormley: Sculpted space, within and without

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Okay, open your eyes.

That's the space that I think sprltucue — which is a bit of a paradox, sculpture that is about making mraeital propositions — but I think that's the sacpe that sculpture can connect us with.

So, imagine we're in the middle of America. You're asleep. You wake up, and without lfiintg your head from the earth on your sleeping bag, you can see for 70 miles. This is a dry lake bed. I was young. I'd just finished art school. I wanted to do something that was wirknog directly with the world, directly with place. This was a wrnuofdel palce, because it was a place where you could imignae that you were the first person to be there. It was a place where nothing very much had happened. Anyway, bear with me. I picked up a hand-sized stone, threw it as far as I was able, it was about 22 meters. I then ceelrad all the stones within that radius and made a pile. And that was the pile, by the way. And then, I stood on the pile, and threw all of those rocks out again, and here is rearranged desert.

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Okay, open your eyes.

That's the space that I think _________ — which is a bit of a paradox, sculpture that is about making ________ propositions — but I think that's the _____ that sculpture can connect us with.

So, imagine we're in the middle of America. You're asleep. You wake up, and without _______ your head from the earth on your sleeping bag, you can see for 70 miles. This is a dry lake bed. I was young. I'd just finished art school. I wanted to do something that was _______ directly with the world, directly with place. This was a _________ _____, because it was a place where you could _______ that you were the first person to be there. It was a place where nothing very much had happened. Anyway, bear with me. I picked up a hand-sized stone, threw it as far as I was able, it was about 22 meters. I then _______ all the stones within that radius and made a pile. And that was the pile, by the way. And then, I stood on the pile, and threw all of those rocks out again, and here is rearranged desert.

Solution


  1. place
  2. sculpture
  3. space
  4. working
  5. material
  6. wonderful
  7. lifting
  8. imagine
  9. cleared

Original Text


Okay, open your eyes.

That's the space that I think sculpture — which is a bit of a paradox, sculpture that is about making material propositions — but I think that's the space that sculpture can connect us with.

So, imagine we're in the middle of America. You're asleep. You wake up, and without lifting your head from the earth on your sleeping bag, you can see for 70 miles. This is a dry lake bed. I was young. I'd just finished art school. I wanted to do something that was working directly with the world, directly with place. This was a wonderful place, because it was a place where you could imagine that you were the first person to be there. It was a place where nothing very much had happened. Anyway, bear with me. I picked up a hand-sized stone, threw it as far as I was able, it was about 22 meters. I then cleared all the stones within that radius and made a pile. And that was the pile, by the way. And then, I stood on the pile, and threw all of those rocks out again, and here is rearranged desert.

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Important Words


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