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Welcome back from break.

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My name is Noah Saterstrom.

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I'm a visual artist and
curator of trickhouse.org.

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It's my pleasure to briefly
introduce Cecilia Vicuna.

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Cecilia is a poet visual
artist and filmmaker

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born in Santiago, Chile.

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The author of 20
books of poetry,

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she exhibits widely in Europe,
Latin America, and the US.

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I had the privilege of
accompanying a group of artists

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to help Cecilia with a project
this week out in the desert

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and to see how she works.

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And you could say
she's a minimalist,

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but not in a modernist
sense of being preoccupied

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with pure form, but
more like there's

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a bird hopping through the
woods looking for a place

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to build a nest.

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And as she's building
the nest, she's

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keenly aware of
her surroundings,

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identifying materials
and locations

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through intuition that
are suitable to her needs.

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And once she identifies
the correct site

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and collects all the
proper materials,

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the bird performs the minimum
of precise and quiet actions

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to construct the needed form.

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Please welcome Cecilia Vicuna.

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[APPLAUSE]

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