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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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