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So Mary which is the the horse and self
he is the mentor for the fall and so

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there'll be

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a set of harnesses the draft horse with
the leads wrapping around the fall

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and basically the show represents the
teaching of the of the mentor the

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parent teaching of the four. Sometimes
we think about if you look at

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a horse that has

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a harness on that we're restricting
that and I look at more of those

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responsibilities of life and those
responsibilities that we take on whether it's of

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owning

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a home providing you know providing schooling
or whatever it is for our children

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that those of those harnesses as part of
our responsibility and by just taking on

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those responsibilities where we're teaching
them the the younger the the fall in

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this case how to live life and be productive
for the community and for their family

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eventually my piece is actually
going to beat two giant dice

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casino dice that are
kind of floating above

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a pedestal that's representing the earth
and the title page and there is no

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gambling like politics and where
it's actually said and written by

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a British statesman back in one thousand
nine hundred six and that was my

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inspiration and so my piece actually
will turn and rotate so you can

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actually spend the dice and look at each
line out of the black spots in the dice

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because they will have a method inside of

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a text or. A social issue and I
think the party that. Kind of very

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much with how the politics are going and
then my little people at the bottom

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actually are going to be reacting to all
sorts of different languages and. That's

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the rap it's one of those little is that
this isn't just rolling the dice on House

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and that was done by current politician
Schumer has said my piece is

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a composite digital photographic work that
is printed on aluminum these images were

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made in February of this year twenty
seven thousand when I was in Paris I

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photographed the Great Pyramid in the
courtyard of the Louvre in pay pyramid

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Basically I walked around it I saw her for
that made about sixty photographs and

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then when I came back to the States and my
studio I composite did them and created

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this image the title is important and
it's pure made to do which is what that

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object is called but the farewell Paris

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a pyramid scheme refers to the Paris
climate records and the people in the

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foreground that are in the
storeroom for AROUND area

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a very ghostly looking. There is

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a definite connection to climate change
that I'm trying to address here on

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a subtle double pane and not well known at
this point but I'll share with you right

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now if you get close to the work and you
look at the edges of the pyramid you'll

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see that there are there is text there
and that text refers to. The trumpet

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ministration the players in the trumpet
ministries and. It will be traveling down

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to our prize and then our heads for the
month of September last into October and it

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will be how is the venue there will be that
date every America and down time frame

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happen and that will be my first
time in the. Front of the grand

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so the. It's going to be

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a whole nother experience I'm going to
spend all three weeks there and interact

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with the people and I'm just looking forward
to that because it's fun interacting

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with people as they see

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a horse and then they come out and they
realize it's made out of barbed wire and so

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the seeing the reaction that's

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a lot of fun for me and I make
submitting it to Gerald R.

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Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids
I think our prize is important to the

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Grand Rapids community to the state of
Michigan and. To the Midwest from part of

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this country and nationally because
it is unlike any other sort of art.

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Events in the country and and really in
the world the amount of money that's

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awarded five hundred thousand dollars is
an enormous amount. That initially went to

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three people basically by popular vote
nine years ago when our price started

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a few years into it it was decided while
our prize would divide that five hundred

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thousand dollars half into public vote
money and then half of that would be

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determined by experience jurors from the
art world the reason it's important is

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really multi-leveled because folks in
Grand Rapids folks that are trained as

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artists get to experience work all the
venues are open for free so normally where

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you'd have to pay an entrance fee for the
gram the gram of time Museum the Urban

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Institute compared and some of the other
larger venues you get in and no cost

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there's art everywhere about five hundred
to five hundred thousand people will see

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the work over the course of our prize.
And I've never met anyone that went that

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didn't find something that they really like
I think it's important for folks in our

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local community I mean or by an hour and

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a half away from Grand Rapids to go see
the work because we have participating

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artists myself included so that they can
go and look at our work maybe that they

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have

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a connection to the artist or to the work
that they've seen for instance through

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Art Walk Central that we have here in my
present. And in that journey of sort of

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familiarity and seeing you know what sort
of contribution someone locally can make

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their OS be introduced to other works from
Michigan and the Midwest. And the US and

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from around the world I think there's
something like thirty different countries

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that contribute entries and so understanding
that art is important in our lives it

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starts as sort of

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a pebble in the pond in these ripples that
come off of that so the pebble is where

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we live locally and the people we know the
experiences we have the. Polls go out

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again to are just that produce all sorts
of challenging work and that come from all

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of the places in the world but I
think it's really fun because

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a lot of the people from the area they put
together the best of those and. Gather

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groups of friends and neighbors and head
down to Art Prize and you can't go very

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far when you're down there and before you
seen the piece of artwork and I think it

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really brings some notoriety to the area
and also some validity to the artists from

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this area.