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From the Ted Talk by Janet Echelman: Taking imagination seriously

Unscramble the Blue Letters


(apulspae)

This intersection had been banld and anonymous. Now it had a sense of place. I walked underneath it for the first time. As I watched the wind's choreography unfold, I felt sheltered and, at the same time, connected to limitless sky. My life was not going to be the same. I want to create these oases of sculpture in spaces of cities around the world. I'm going to share two directions that are new in my work.

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Open Cloze


(________)

This intersection had been _____ and anonymous. Now it had a sense of place. I walked underneath it for the first time. As I watched the wind's choreography unfold, I felt sheltered and, at the same time, connected to limitless sky. My life was not going to be the same. I want to create these oases of sculpture in spaces of cities around the world. I'm going to share two directions that are new in my work.

________ Philadelphia City Hall: its plaza, I felt, ______ a material for sculpture that was _______ than netting. So we experimented with tiny atomized water particles to create a dry mist that is shaped by the wind and in testing, __________ that it can be ______ by people who can interact and move through it without getting wet. I'm using this sculpture material to trace the paths of subway ______ above ______ in real time -- like an X-ray of the city's circulatory system _________.

Solution


  1. bland
  2. historic
  3. ground
  4. discovered
  5. lighter
  6. shaped
  7. trains
  8. needed
  9. unfolding
  10. applause

Original Text


(Applause)

This intersection had been bland and anonymous. Now it had a sense of place. I walked underneath it for the first time. As I watched the wind's choreography unfold, I felt sheltered and, at the same time, connected to limitless sky. My life was not going to be the same. I want to create these oases of sculpture in spaces of cities around the world. I'm going to share two directions that are new in my work.

Historic Philadelphia City Hall: its plaza, I felt, needed a material for sculpture that was lighter than netting. So we experimented with tiny atomized water particles to create a dry mist that is shaped by the wind and in testing, discovered that it can be shaped by people who can interact and move through it without getting wet. I'm using this sculpture material to trace the paths of subway trains above ground in real time -- like an X-ray of the city's circulatory system unfolding.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
fourteen years 2
changing patterns 2


Important Words


  1. anonymous
  2. applause
  3. atomized
  4. bland
  5. choreography
  6. circulatory
  7. cities
  8. city
  9. connected
  10. create
  11. directions
  12. discovered
  13. dry
  14. experimented
  15. felt
  16. ground
  17. historic
  18. interact
  19. intersection
  20. life
  21. lighter
  22. limitless
  23. material
  24. mist
  25. move
  26. needed
  27. netting
  28. oases
  29. particles
  30. paths
  31. people
  32. philadelphia
  33. place
  34. plaza
  35. real
  36. sculpture
  37. sense
  38. shaped
  39. share
  40. sheltered
  41. sky
  42. spaces
  43. subway
  44. system
  45. testing
  46. time
  47. tiny
  48. trace
  49. trains
  50. unfold
  51. unfolding
  52. walked
  53. watched
  54. water
  55. wet
  56. wind
  57. work
  58. world