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From the Ted Talk by Alicia Eggert: Imaginative sculptures that explore how we perceive reality

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Imagine, for example, you're walking down the street in Philadelphia. A city in the US that contains so much history, the birthplace of our constitution. But imagine you're walking down the street in an area that's undergoing a huge transformation due to gentrification. And as you walk down that street, you notice something flashing up above you. So you look up and you see this. A flashing neon sign that says "All the light you see is from the past," and then "All you see is past," before tinunrg off completely for a brief moment. It asks you to stop and notice the history eebedmdd in everything that you see. And it reminds you that because lihgt takes time to teravl across space, even from just across the sretet or across the room, everything you're seeing in the present moment is thclaicenly an image of the past.

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Imagine, for example, you're walking down the street in Philadelphia. A city in the US that contains so much history, the birthplace of our constitution. But imagine you're walking down the street in an area that's undergoing a huge transformation due to gentrification. And as you walk down that street, you notice something flashing up above you. So you look up and you see this. A flashing neon sign that says "All the light you see is from the past," and then "All you see is past," before _______ off completely for a brief moment. It asks you to stop and notice the history ________ in everything that you see. And it reminds you that because _____ takes time to ______ across space, even from just across the ______ or across the room, everything you're seeing in the present moment is ___________ an image of the past.

Solution

  1. turning
  2. light
  3. travel
  4. street
  5. technically
  6. embedded

Original Text

Imagine, for example, you're walking down the street in Philadelphia. A city in the US that contains so much history, the birthplace of our constitution. But imagine you're walking down the street in an area that's undergoing a huge transformation due to gentrification. And as you walk down that street, you notice something flashing up above you. So you look up and you see this. A flashing neon sign that says "All the light you see is from the past," and then "All you see is past," before turning off completely for a brief moment. It asks you to stop and notice the history embedded in everything that you see. And it reminds you that because light takes time to travel across space, even from just across the street or across the room, everything you're seeing in the present moment is technically an image of the past.

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