How art transforms brokenness into beauty | Lily Yeh

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🗓️ 4 December 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Lily Yeh calls herself a barefoot artist: she travels the world with a suitcase full of art supplies, working with whoever wants to join her. In an inspiring talk, she shares the fruits of her collaborative art projects that bring color, community and beauty to public spaces often seen as “broken."

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0:00.0	TED Audio Collective.
0:09.2	You're listening to TED Talks Daily, where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity
0:14.1	every day.
0:15.3	I'm your host, Elise Hugh.
0:16.9	A truly inspiring talk today from a public artist.
0:21.2	Lily Yeh's 2024 talk shows how places that we might casually view is broken or run down can be transformed by art and help grow community.
0:31.5	She introduces us to the village of arts and humanity after a short break.
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1:14.5	And now our TED Talk of the Day.
1:17.9	I remember when I was young, I liked to make pictures of beautiful places,
1:25.2	but I didn't know that I would become the passion of my life.
1:32.0	I was born in China and grew up in Taiwan.
1:36.9	When I was seven,
1:38.5	my family had to flee to the island
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