Taking imagination seriously - Janet Echelman
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Janet Echelman found her true voice as an artist when her paints went missing -- which forced her to look to an unorthodox new art material. Now she makes billowing, flowing, building-sized sculpture with a surprisingly geeky edge. A transporting 10 minutes of pure creativity.
One of Echelman’s earliest large-scale sculptures included more than a million and a half hand-tied knots—an incredibly labor-intensive enterprise. Do you think that knowing about the artist’s process changes how the viewer perceives or values the artwork? Why or why not?
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