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Process Jelena Telecki

he first painting I can remember is Bruegel’s (1565). Although many years have passed since my childhood fascination with it (or rather, with its reproduction hanging in my parents’ bedroom), continues to evade my full understanding of how a painting can be both beautiful and ugly, unsettling and attractive, and represent reality of a kind while clearly inhabiting a universe

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