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What is an important theme in Jason deCaires Taylor’s work and how does that theme occur in the work?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr4ClSbkQOw  

What is Kara Walker’s Marvelous Sugar Baby about?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRkP5rcXtys  

What is Kara Walker’s Marvelous Sugar Baby about?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRkP5rcXtys  

Ann Hamilton’s “the event of a thread” is a very ___________ artwork, it relies on the viewer to participate.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fJ4umqXGjM  

Richard Serra is more interested in the act of making than he is interested in the resulting artwork. He’s trying to invent artistic strategies that allow him to see in ways that he hasn’t seen before in order to extend his vision. Why would he be interested in that?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-mBR26bAzA    

Martin Puryear feels that there is a fascinating narrative in the fabrication of things. What does he mean by that? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY7XV3E5PaA&t=190s  

In the video below, we get a basic overview of the thought and research process that Kara Walker worked through to develop her Marvelous Sugar Baby sculpture. What was involved with that process?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRkP5rcXtys  

Martin Puryear feels that there is a fascinating narrative in the fabrication of things. What does he mean by that? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY7XV3E5PaA&t=190s  

There’s a thing about the experience with Ann Hamilton’s work, and really with most art, that we kind of take for granted and that is not exactly made explicit in the video. What is that?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fJ4umqXGjM  

On a hot, dry day, plants close their stomata to conserve water, which decreases the amount of CO2 coming into the cell.  How are CAM plants adapted to this situation?