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" To make large, site-specific work as an artist is usually quite tortuous; there are so many boxes you have to tick. "
Cornelia Parker
Large
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" People often want the big dramatic works, not the smaller quieter ones, but I don't worry about how it fits together anymore; I just have to do it. I feel compelled to make a work: it's like an itch I have to scratch, and once it's been scratched, it goes away. "
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