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From the Ted Talk by Alexa Meade: Your body is my canvas

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I wanted to think about what else I could put shadows on, and I thguoht of my fneird Bernie. But I didn't just want to paint the shadows. I also wanetd to paint the highlights and ctaree a mapping on his body in greyscale. I had a very specific vision of what this would look like, and as I was painting him, I made sure to follow that very closely. But something kept on flickering before my eyes. I wasn't quite sure what I was looking at. And then when I took that moment to take a step back, magic. I had turned my friend into a painting. I couldn't have foreseen that when I wanted to paint a shadow, I would pull out this whole other diesmnoin, that I would cpoallse it, that I would take a painting and make it my friend and then bring him back to a painting.

Open Cloze

I wanted to think about what else I could put shadows on, and I _______ of my ______ Bernie. But I didn't just want to paint the shadows. I also ______ to paint the highlights and ______ a mapping on his body in greyscale. I had a very specific vision of what this would look like, and as I was painting him, I made sure to follow that very closely. But something kept on flickering before my eyes. I wasn't quite sure what I was looking at. And then when I took that moment to take a step back, magic. I had turned my friend into a painting. I couldn't have foreseen that when I wanted to paint a shadow, I would pull out this whole other _________, that I would ________ it, that I would take a painting and make it my friend and then bring him back to a painting.

Solution

  1. dimension
  2. create
  3. thought
  4. wanted
  5. friend
  6. collapse

Original Text

I wanted to think about what else I could put shadows on, and I thought of my friend Bernie. But I didn't just want to paint the shadows. I also wanted to paint the highlights and create a mapping on his body in greyscale. I had a very specific vision of what this would look like, and as I was painting him, I made sure to follow that very closely. But something kept on flickering before my eyes. I wasn't quite sure what I was looking at. And then when I took that moment to take a step back, magic. I had turned my friend into a painting. I couldn't have foreseen that when I wanted to paint a shadow, I would pull out this whole other dimension, that I would collapse it, that I would take a painting and make it my friend and then bring him back to a painting.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

  1. bernie
  2. body
  3. bring
  4. closely
  5. collapse
  6. create
  7. dimension
  8. eyes
  9. flickering
  10. follow
  11. foreseen
  12. friend
  13. greyscale
  14. highlights
  15. magic
  16. mapping
  17. moment
  18. paint
  19. painting
  20. pull
  21. put
  22. shadow
  23. shadows
  24. specific
  25. step
  26. thought
  27. turned
  28. vision
  29. wanted