I’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
AGNES DENESI’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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I always was alone. And I’m alone today. It’s fine. I have lots of friends, but not in terms of working together.
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Maybe that’s why I was left out of a lot of things, or why my work was not really understood, because there was no precedent for it.
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When I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
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Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years.
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We use up words as we use up images. We use up everything, and that’s good, because it makes us grow.
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I study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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My work is about helping humanity.
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There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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Words are changing. I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet. It’s difficult.
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And I even like my own company. But when I’m alone, it’s to read or write. I’m in my thoughts. Mostly I’m learning.
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I studied how to mine a landfill and what to plant in it. It’s fascinating because you learn a new field each time.
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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
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