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Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.66,0:00:25.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.76,0:00:32.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Besides the fact that they're history to me,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.72,0:00:34.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just think they're beautiful.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.80,0:00:37.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For a long time, I thought they were too beautiful.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.18,0:00:44.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Beauty is a problem sometimes in art making.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.16,0:00:52.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the '70s, the rest of the world thought\Nthat beauty was a weakness;
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.62,0:00:55.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the reality is, it's a strength.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.18,0:01:00.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think, just as other things\Nhave changed in the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.38,0:01:03.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,things come around, you know.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.48,0:01:09.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[CURATOR]\N--So exciting, I'm dying to see this.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.38,0:01:10.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[LAUGHS]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.62,0:01:22.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--That is beautiful.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.92,0:01:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Oh my gosh, Barbara, this is exciting. I love it!
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.64,0:01:35.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[KASTEN]\N--I'm going to work with this again, I'm sure.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.00,0:01:38.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--I like it. Yeah, I like it.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.74,0:01:45.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This was my first attempt at photography.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.90,0:01:49.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's called cyanotype.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.32,0:01:54.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a liquid emulsion that's a mix of\Niron and bleach.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.78,0:01:59.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Any object can be placed on it\Nand exposed in sunlight.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.22,0:02:04.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When it's washed, it turns blue.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.26,0:02:07.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Blue is such a spiritual color.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.62,0:02:12.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I love the fact that this blue\Ncan be so intense.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.56,0:02:19.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the '70s,\Nwhen I was teaching textile sculpture,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.79,0:02:24.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I needed a way to demonstrate\Nhow to take a flat woven surface
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.12,0:02:26.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and make a three-dimensional form.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.25,0:02:28.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I found this window screening.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.52,0:02:34.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I saw how two layers\Nmake a beautiful moiré
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.66,0:02:40.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought of this cyanotype process,\Nand experimented with that.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.82,0:02:42.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's very easy.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.61,0:02:45.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It didn't require a darkroom.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.50,0:02:49.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I liked the idea that it was\Nmore like a printmaking process;
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.53,0:02:53.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but, it happened to be\Na photographic recording.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.06,0:03:00.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just knew that there was something special\Nabout these works.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.86,0:03:05.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just put them away for a while.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.90,0:03:15.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't want them out in the world without\Nsome sort of recognition as a body of work.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.78,0:03:25.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I still have an affinity for materials.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.44,0:03:33.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I still respond to the transparencies\Nand textures of different surfaces.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.20,0:03:41.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At that point in time, I really had a freedom.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.60,0:03:45.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't know anything about photography.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.90,0:03:48.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now I think I know too much about photography.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.08,0:03:57.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was a more experimental time,\Nin a different way.