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this is really the word what that word means
to various viewers both here in america and
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abroad. i was thinking about how america and
democracy has always had this sense of opposition
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showing tremendous promise and also tremendous
amount of things wrong, things that need to
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be fixed, to be worked on. Good. Neon is an
interesting medium because it is sculptural,
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and I don’t think of that I really do sculpture
but use language a lot, so it is a way of
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using language in a sculptural manner. the
Art in Embassies program is an interesting
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way to think about the breadth of american
culture. Embassies in most people’s imaginations
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are the places to go to get your passport
or get a visa, they don’t think of them as
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sites of culture, but I think they are sites
of culture…