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I need to be less defensive

I need to release my honesty

I need to come through with my story

from the TED Audio Collective come through with my story.

From the Tad Audio Collective,

this is Design Matters with Debbie Millman.

On Design Matters, Debbie talks with designers and other creative people about what they do,

how they got to be who they are,

and what they're thinking about and working on.

On this episode, Olofer Elias talks about creating art that affects viewers by including them.

People are actually worth trusting when it comes to looking at art.

Deep down, every visual artist suspects that they can't compete with nature.

The scale, the shapes, the forms, the patterns,

the light, the colors, the designs,

found pretty much everywhere in the natural world

are so perfect. It might just be an

act of hubris for an artist to even try to compete. Yet, Olafer-Eliason seems to have found a way

to harness some of this natural beauty in his own extraordinary art. His sculptures, his installations,

experiments with light and water have been drawing huge audiences for several decades. In 2003, his weather project in London

created the illusion of a meteorological event with a giant sun-filling turbine hall at the Tate

Museum. In the middle of the last decade,

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