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so this project’s actually really

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interesting because

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when i was an undergrad at the

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university in vagina i

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was working in more larger scale

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installation

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and then over the years i’ve actually

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pared down to working on much smaller

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sculptures so this is actually it feels

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like it’s like a 20 year leap and i’m

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going back to doing something much

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bigger again so it’s been really

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exciting

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um so over the years yeah i’ve worked on

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sculptural stuff and then a whole line

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of functional work

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and sort of bringing in politics and art

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and conversation commentary through

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those two lines of work but this has

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just been

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a super exciting way to sort of expand

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and sort of scratch

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that itch to make something really big

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again

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so i was thinking about borders in the

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sense of

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well in a lot of different ways about

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ideas of boundaries

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and bubbles and originally i

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planned for a different project for this

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piece and when code had happened

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i had to shift what i was doing because

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i was going to be working

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in clay and hand built clay but then

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also working in industry

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and so suddenly i didn’t have access to

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the industrial side of what i needed to

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do to accomplish it

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so i decided to start working

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um basically with what was happening

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around me and so

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uh my work has always been political

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commentary or social commentary and very

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much

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trying to locate myself within these

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conversations

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as a settler white privileged person

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and and approaching the topics from that

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way and so

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making a piece about kobe that’s where i

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came from so i was looking

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at the ideas of boundaries between

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people about the social

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bubbles that we were creating but also

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just the tears that we have within

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society of

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essential workers versus people who

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some half of what you saw online was

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that there was people fighting for their

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rights and then the other half were

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taking up new hobbies

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so i was sort of thinking about the

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borders and boundaries between

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the different classes of people

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um well so basically i focused on my

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response what was happening within the

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pandemic

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and um what i was even just the social

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media bubble

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that i sort of have through my channels

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of facebook and instagram and all of

2:38

that stuff and then trying to break

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outside of that because obviously

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cobit has become very political and

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divisive and so

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a lot of my research sort of tried to

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take the to see

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the other

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and so it was it would have been very

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easy to get into the bubble of

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the white privilege of you know i’m

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picking up knitting now but

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um so a lot of my research really just

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delved into looking

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and trying to create um to gain

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perspective on how other people

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throughout the world were dealing with

3:09

this and what was happening and so

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it was a lot more looking into personal

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stories too rather than statistics and

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numbers

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um and just trying to find the humanity

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behind all of the numbers because i

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think we can get lost in that and it

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becomes just sort of

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um it’s just numbers and so

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painting all of these portraits on these

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plates of essential workers to me it was

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about

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finding those stories and and just

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trying to find a way to showcase that

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there are

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all of these different stories out there

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so there’s also a lot of research into

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imagery

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and what have you so a lot of all of the

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paintings are

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um sort of derivative or or combinations

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of different images and stuff of real

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people that i found

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and sourced and so part of that too is

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it’s not

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going out and meeting essential workers

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and photographing them because again the

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part of code is that you can’t do that

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so a lot of the research was fine

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i think for me my work is always just

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trying to exist as a point of

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conversation

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between myself and somebody else and so

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as much as i’m putting a lot of how i

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feel into my work i’m really putting it

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there because i don’t have all the

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answers so i’m trying to

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create a space where we can have a

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conversation so

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i guess what i hope people would take

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away from it is this desire

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to um to just be more engaged in the

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world around them because i think that’s

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when i make art it’s all about engaging

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with other

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aspects of human nature or things that

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are happening around the world and so

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i’m just sort of asking

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other people to get in that conversation

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with me and whether or not we agree or

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not just

4:52

having that conversation in that

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dialogue so we can all grow

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and be better people

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