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my name is Damien summer I was born and

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raised in Durham North Carolina and I'm

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an artist in area 919 I go out and take

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a lot of reference photos right around

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the land where I grew up out out in the

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sticks out in North Durham so there's a

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lot of old tobacco curing barns kind of

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old shacks dilapidated places and

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they're actually the same some of the

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same places that my bus used to pass to

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and from every day on the way to school

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we were kind of like the first ones on

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the bus and last ones off so spent two

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hours bumbling through the landscape I

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didn't realize I would have such a

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profound effect on me but I keep going

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back there and with this with the source

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material for Requiem it's it's another

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one of these kind of abandoned places

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where you don't know whether someone was

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there 40 years ago or 40 minutes ago I

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think one of my subjects is always time

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in the passage of time and I'm

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interested in making a brand new

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painting look old and have this sense of

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age kind of imbue it with this aura of

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time through different techniques

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subject matter but but just kind of

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trying to give it this this sense of age

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so I want because I would like viewers

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to to take away

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an idea that that this is a place that's

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important to me important to obviously

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someone else this kind of unknown the

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these subjects that are in the painting

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their these lives that I don't really

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know but I'm trying to piece together

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and there's there's some kind of beauty

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in that not knowing but but also that

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this kind of sadness of a piano that's

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not being used is broken down instrument

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that out of life is going to be kind of

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continued with with this work of art

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even even after the whole hope piano and

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the wood and the keys decay