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From the Ted Talk by Wangechi Mutu: The timeless, ancient language of art

Unscramble the Blue Letters


After harvesting so much paper and producing so, so many collages, I felt it was time to step back and let go. Time to purge and sherd this excess ppaer and these materials that I'd cletlceod for years. And I did. tunnrig it all into a dark, thick paper clay, which I used to create my first large sculpture, a reclining woman with open arms and her eyes facing forward, a figure who could see a new biennigng on its way, titled "She's Got the Whole World in Her."

As I visited and returned from my childhood home, I came back with all types of rkocs and branches, pots and beads, and each shell, each bone, each feather I found, I used in the work, wnievag back that deep connection to my home soil. I sculpted these giant earth queens and placed the small mementos inside of them, avriihcng my memories and experiences with family and frndeis.

Open Cloze


After harvesting so much paper and producing so, so many collages, I felt it was time to step back and let go. Time to purge and _____ this excess _____ and these materials that I'd _________ for years. And I did. _______ it all into a dark, thick paper clay, which I used to create my first large sculpture, a reclining woman with open arms and her eyes facing forward, a figure who could see a new _________ on its way, titled "She's Got the Whole World in Her."

As I visited and returned from my childhood home, I came back with all types of _____ and branches, pots and beads, and each shell, each bone, each feather I found, I used in the work, _______ back that deep connection to my home soil. I sculpted these giant earth queens and placed the small mementos inside of them, _________ my memories and experiences with family and _______.

Solution


  1. weaving
  2. friends
  3. collected
  4. beginning
  5. turning
  6. shred
  7. paper
  8. rocks
  9. archiving

Original Text


After harvesting so much paper and producing so, so many collages, I felt it was time to step back and let go. Time to purge and shred this excess paper and these materials that I'd collected for years. And I did. Turning it all into a dark, thick paper clay, which I used to create my first large sculpture, a reclining woman with open arms and her eyes facing forward, a figure who could see a new beginning on its way, titled "She's Got the Whole World in Her."

As I visited and returned from my childhood home, I came back with all types of rocks and branches, pots and beads, and each shell, each bone, each feather I found, I used in the work, weaving back that deep connection to my home soil. I sculpted these giant earth queens and placed the small mementos inside of them, archiving my memories and experiences with family and friends.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
ancient language 4
making art 2


Important Words


  1. archiving
  2. arms
  3. beads
  4. beginning
  5. bone
  6. branches
  7. childhood
  8. clay
  9. collages
  10. collected
  11. connection
  12. create
  13. dark
  14. deep
  15. earth
  16. excess
  17. experiences
  18. eyes
  19. facing
  20. family
  21. feather
  22. felt
  23. figure
  24. friends
  25. giant
  26. harvesting
  27. home
  28. large
  29. materials
  30. mementos
  31. memories
  32. open
  33. paper
  34. pots
  35. producing
  36. purge
  37. queens
  38. reclining
  39. returned
  40. rocks
  41. sculpted
  42. sculpture
  43. shell
  44. shred
  45. small
  46. soil
  47. step
  48. thick
  49. time
  50. titled
  51. turning
  52. types
  53. visited
  54. weaving
  55. woman
  56. work
  57. world
  58. years