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Artist Miranda July Performs At a Gas Station
Clip: Season 11 Episode 3 | 1m 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Artist Miranda July performs at a gas station in Los Angeles, California.
Artist Miranda July walks through a busy gas station while uncoiling a roll of white ribbon, asking strangers to hold onto a part of it but feel free to let go whenever they need to. The ribbon tangles and wraps around the entire gas station. In the voiceover, July discusses how taking risks is her comfort zone and not being afraid to do so gives her a superpower to work freely.
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Artist Miranda July Performs At a Gas Station
Clip: Season 11 Episode 3 | 1m 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Artist Miranda July walks through a busy gas station while uncoiling a roll of white ribbon, asking strangers to hold onto a part of it but feel free to let go whenever they need to. The ribbon tangles and wraps around the entire gas station. In the voiceover, July discusses how taking risks is her comfort zone and not being afraid to do so gives her a superpower to work freely.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship♪elegant orchestral music♪ [Miranda VO] Risk, in general, for me, is really such a comfort zone.
I was the kind of kid who was just like, "Dare me to do something."
I loved the high of that.
♪♪ I'm remembering when I was... maybe, like, seven or something, playing at the park, and there was-- you know those really intense basketball games with men playing, and they're just shouting and like, "I'm open!
I'm open!"
You know, like, [chuckling] um... And my friends dared me... to join the game.
[Miranda] Do you mind holding that for a sec?
You can let go whenever you need to let go.
Thank you.
[Miranda VO] And I just jumped right in, and just was like, "I'm open!
I'm open!"
You know, just, like, doing the [chuckling] stuff I saw them doing, and I was, like, floating on air, you know, because I'd done it and I'd survived.
[Miranda] Do you mind just holding this?
You can let go whenever you need to let go.
[Miranda VO] I guess I learned, you know, if you're not afraid -- and why should you really be afraid?
-- then it's like you can fly; you have this superpower.
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