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Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.50,0:00:10.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.99,0:00:22.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Drawing for me is a sort of meditation.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.29,0:00:25.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think everything begins and ends with the drawing.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.00,0:00:30.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whenever I do a project, I draw it out.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.93,0:00:34.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, it's kind of a basic language,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.16,0:00:36.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then I do some things in between.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.08,0:00:41.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's all about collaging.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.08,0:00:48.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot of what I do as being an artist
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.02,0:00:51.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is creating a voice for myself
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.99,0:00:55.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I didn't have one for so long.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.59,0:01:02.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1965, I got pregnant.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.10,0:01:06.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the fifth month of my pregnancy,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.84,0:01:08.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was having trouble breathing
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.93,0:01:12.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and came down with a heart condition\Ncalled cardiomyopathy.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.79,0:01:14.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I went into heart failure.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.70,0:01:18.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was under an oxygen tent \Nduring that pregnancy,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.99,0:01:20.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a hospital.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.20,0:01:23.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was unable to walk
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.38,0:01:26.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or to do anything for many, many months.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.56,0:01:33.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you are experiencing \Nthe threat of death,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.11,0:01:35.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you become so aware of time.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.22,0:01:38.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's really a gift,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.55,0:01:41.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to become so sick early in my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.00,0:01:44.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It made you value the time you had
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.46,0:01:47.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the fact that you\Ncan't really waste time.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.61,0:01:58.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because so much of my illness\Ndepended on breathing,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.99,0:02:02.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I added the sound as it was getting better
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.24,0:02:04.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to a couple of my wax sculptures.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.48,0:02:06.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[PLAYBACK OF RECORDED BREATHING SOUNDS]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.72,0:02:09.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[VOICE FROM CASSETTE PLAYER]\N--Oh, there you are.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.44,0:02:11.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--I've been waiting for you all day.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.83,0:02:15.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--I'm so glad that you've come to see me.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.49,0:02:18.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--What's your name?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.99,0:02:22.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I took a night class at UCLA
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.09,0:02:24.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on how you cast wax.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.57,0:02:29.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Since I didn't have anybody else around,\NI cast my face
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.96,0:02:33.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and made the wax cast from myself.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.82,0:02:37.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you're so isolated, you hear more.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.77,0:02:40.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[RECORDED BREATHING SOUNDS]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.39,0:02:45.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After my breath itself, I added \Ninteraction and dialogue.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.42,0:02:48.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To me, it was sort of like a drawing.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.57,0:02:51.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was sound that extended into space.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.50,0:02:54.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that became part of the work.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.50,0:03:00.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the seventies,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.59,0:03:05.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,women artists were just becoming aware of\Nhow they were made invisible.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.86,0:03:10.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The early challenges were getting somebody\Nto show my work,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.56,0:03:12.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and nobody would.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.39,0:03:15.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Eventually,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.15,0:03:19.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the University of California at Berkeley \Ninvited three women to have exhibitions
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.19,0:03:20.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I was one of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.51,0:03:22.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But they wanted to show only my drawings.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.19,0:03:26.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think they thought \Nthat drawings were safe
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.29,0:03:28.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and good draftsmanship and all of that.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.96,0:03:30.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But along with that,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.08,0:03:33.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I put in a couple of my wax sculptures\Nthat talked.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.81,0:03:36.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Within two days,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.20,0:03:38.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the museum closed the show.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.18,0:03:41.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They said, "Media isn't art."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.12,0:03:42.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Sound isn't art."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.75,0:03:46.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they completely closed\Nthe exhibition down.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.99,0:03:51.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Being rejected and being made invisible by\Nthe museum system
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.24,0:03:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was really the best thing\Nthat happened to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.16,0:03:58.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The cultural experience of\Nhaving your voice suppressed
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.70,0:04:01.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has made speech, and talking,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.17,0:04:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and having a voice,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.00,0:04:04.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really important in what I do.