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[BRUCE NAUMAN: MAKE-WORK]

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You're just going to go and do something every day.

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Sometimes you have to do that--you just have to make work for yourself.

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I tried to put some different stuff together, so I ended up...

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This is stuff that's lying around here.

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Andrew head on the bottom and a Juliet head on top.

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All thumbs...

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I had a lot of thumbs left over, so I put them together.

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[LAUGHS]

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These are taxidermy forms,

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and this one...

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made out of styrofoam--or urethane foam, I guess.

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Yeah, this is where most of the animal figures came from,

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this taxidermy supply company.

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They come in all kinds of poses,

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and then you can saw them up

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and glue them together in different ways and make different poses.

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Those are all head mounts.

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White-tailed deer, in an amazing number of positions,

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some of which I've never seen a deer in.

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The fish, I find the oddest--

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because they look more like fish fillets than fish.

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[LAUGHS]

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I've said this thing that I've always thought was a quote from Roy Lichtenstein

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when he started the comic book paintings, and he said,

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"There just wasn't anything else to do and I had to do something."

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And I feel that sometimes.

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I mean, I'm an artist, I want to be in the studio,

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I want to be doing something, you just get desperate.

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And so you just do whatever's at hand,

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and you don't even worry about whether it's going to be interesting

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or not interesting to anybody else, or even yourself--

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you just have to make something.

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I suspect I got that quote from Roy Lichtenstein completely wrong--

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it was just a creative misquote.

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But, it's really useful, so that's great, don't worry about it.

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[LAUGHS]

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I think they went together this way, actually.

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I can't remember.

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I'd have to go out and look at the fountain to remember how they went together.

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[LAUGHS]

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[SOUND OF WATER DRIPPING]