Welcome back from break.
My name is Noah Saterstrom.
I'm a visual artist and curator of trickhouse.org.
It's my pleasure to briefly introduce Cecilia Vicuna.
Cecilia is a poet visual artist and filmmaker
born in Santiago, Chile.
The author of 20 books of poetry,
she exhibits widely in Europe, Latin America, and the US.
I had the privilege of accompanying a group of artists
to help Cecilia with a project this week out in the desert
and to see how she works.
And you could say she's a minimalist,
but not in a modernist sense of being preoccupied
with pure form, but more like there's
a bird hopping through the woods looking for a place
to build a nest.
And as she's building the nest, she's
keenly aware of her surroundings,
identifying materials and locations
through intuition that are suitable to her needs.
And once she identifies the correct site
and collects all the proper materials,
the bird performs the minimum of precise and quiet actions
to construct the needed form.
Please welcome Cecilia Vicuna.
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