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The Art Assignment

Constructed Landscape - Paula McCartney

Season 2 Episode 40

This week’s assignment comes from artist Paula McCartney, whose work explores the boundaries between the natural and unnatural. Her assignment asks you to reexamine what those terms even mean by constructing an image of the so-called natural world.

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