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From the Ted Talk by Alejandro Durán: How I use art to tackle plastic pollution in our oceans

Unscramble the Blue Letters

And it all sretatd with this image in February of 2010, when I first visited Sian Ka'an. I noticed that blue was the most prevalent color among the plaitsc. prpule is actually the most rare color. It's kind of like gold to me. But blue is the most pelvenrat, and so I gathered some of the blues and made this little arrangement in front of the blue sky and blue cbaireabn waters. And when I took a photograph and looked at the test shot, it was like a lightning bolt hit me in that moment, and I knew I was going to have to come back to create a whole series of iaainlntstols on location and photograph them.

Open Cloze

And it all _______ with this image in February of 2010, when I first visited Sian Ka'an. I noticed that blue was the most prevalent color among the _______. ______ is actually the most rare color. It's kind of like gold to me. But blue is the most _________, and so I gathered some of the blues and made this little arrangement in front of the blue sky and blue _________ waters. And when I took a photograph and looked at the test shot, it was like a lightning bolt hit me in that moment, and I knew I was going to have to come back to create a whole series of _____________ on location and photograph them.

Solution

  1. purple
  2. plastic
  3. caribbean
  4. prevalent
  5. installations
  6. started

Original Text

And it all started with this image in February of 2010, when I first visited Sian Ka'an. I noticed that blue was the most prevalent color among the plastic. Purple is actually the most rare color. It's kind of like gold to me. But blue is the most prevalent, and so I gathered some of the blues and made this little arrangement in front of the blue sky and blue Caribbean waters. And when I took a photograph and looked at the test shot, it was like a lightning bolt hit me in that moment, and I knew I was going to have to come back to create a whole series of installations on location and photograph them.

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