Every one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
AGNES DENESEvery one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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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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When I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
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I wish I didn’t have daily problems to deal with, so that I could just concentrate on learning more, every single day.
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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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I’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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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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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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I study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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And combining the two is creating this beautiful alliance between humanity and nature. That’s why my forests are mathematical expansion systems, all of them.
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