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  • I use these envelopes as if theyre tubes of paint.

  • Like paint chips.

  • There is no perfect painting and there is no perfect solution.

  • At any given moment, there's ten pieces of paper that I could pick up next

  • and they would find their place

  • and they would lead me on a different path

  • to a different sort of picture.

  • I just have to trust that process.

  • In relinquishing some control, it allows me some distance.

  • I start to feel like the artwork is responding to me,

  • giving me something back

  • or becoming something that I never expected.

  • I enjoy that moment of not recognizing my own hand.

  • [Artist: Elliott Hundley; Episode: "Secrets"]

  • ["Art in the Twenty-First Century," Season 7; Premieres on PBS October 24, 2014]

I use these envelopes as if theyre tubes of paint.

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