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Paper Trail
In 1916, Georgia O’Keeffe, by day an art teacher in Canyon, Texas, could often be found by night crawling around on the floor of her top-story rented room. With cramps in her feet, yet feeling “downright reckless,” she fought to capture a jag of lightning or a rising moon on a foot-high stack of cheap paper until she “got it right.” Working rapidly—first in charcoal (sometimes wearing the skin off her fingers from the rubbing) and eventually in pastels, graphite, or watercolors—was a way of seeing things over time, as if in a series of photographs, a practice she’d learned at college. READ ON
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