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my name is Jeff whetstone I live in

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Durham and my work is part of area 919

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you're looking at a field in western

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nebraska and you're looking at a

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grasshopper swarm they don't really make

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a sound except for the rustling of their

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legs and their wings and in the wheat

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fields them coming out of a kind of a

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dry wheat so you hear a lot of sound it

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fills you with a feeling of all the

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whole sky becomes alive and you you feel

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insignificant once they leave and you

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can see like the damage they've done to

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the ground and the crops you rot like

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wow those tiny little insects x millions

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can really like eat the crops to the

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ground I think one thing that I want to

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do and all of my work is to remind

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myself the power of natural forces is

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something that we don't necessarily

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calculate a lot not that this picture

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necessarily does that but there is an

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immense power of nature and I don't know

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if its benevolent or destructive it's

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certainly intimidating and awesome one

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of the things I really wanted to make

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sure that i referenced was mark making

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ink on paper something that looked like

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a splatter paint or pointillism the

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labor involved in making a big thing

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like that by hand how marks many many

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many marks can kind of become this

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awesome composition so it does relate

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back to I think painting landscape

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abstraction you know there's something

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other objects in Pollock e in it it's

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kind of got the psychology of abstract

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expressionism without being at all

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abstract but it is expressive I think