tv Witness My Eternal Art Al Jazeera February 2, 2023 5:30am-6:01am AST
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to come so called bright comets with glowing heads and long tails. last year a new one was discovered as it passed the orbit of jupiter. and right now, if you look north, just after sunset near the big dipper constellation, using binoculars or a telescope, you might just be able to see comment 2022, e 3 zed t f, named after the telescope that saw it. and the time it was seen likely comes from the distant or cloud, a cosmic mist of water, ice and rock that sits thousands of times further from our son than neptune. it's one of 2 places, comments come from in our solar system. the last time this comment appeared in our sky, earth was in an ice age, and modern humans were making stone age tools alongside now extinct neanderthals and dennis opens. as any common approaches, the sun, it heats up, the frozen material inside, gets thrown off as gas and dust that could be seen streaking across the sky. at the
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front of this one, a reaction that was only recently understood is happening. a molecule of 2 carbon atoms, burns green before being destroyed by sunlight. comments may have brought water to earth in its early years. this one is expected to leave the sun's pole entirely flying off into interstellar space. so seeing it really is a unique opportunity. ah, you're watching al jazeera and these are the top stories. the sour a funeral has been held in memphis for tyree nichols who died after being bitten by police officers 3 weeks ago. his family was joined by the us vice president and civil rights activists. nichols, mother called on congress to pass police reform legislation in the wake of her son's killing. i just me, whatever ed george lloyd be a we needed past. yeah.
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because there should be no other chair. there's just sub where the way mother and all the other peer it see here have lost their church written we need to get that bill passed. name down that blair the next to albert died. that blood is going to be on there. he in there are reports at israel has conducted air strikes on the gaza strip. israel's military seat at target had a saw on the strip. after a rocket was fined from garza, a ride sirens could be heard. the u. s. is expected to be granted more access to philippine military bases defense. secretary lloyd austin has been holding talks with president ferdinand michaels. junior in manila, a russian rocket has hidden apartment complex and ukraine's eastern city of coma tours killing at least 2 people and injuring 7 others. the u. k has experienced its
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stall wanna do this today. sink at the positive stuff, what it's doing for you. it's helping you with water. and i know it's just the waiting. hey, this is the hardest part, isn't it soon? maybe not, but also the 2nd are as far as the when a day, anticipation mean, anticipation done with it. all right, let me get we got extra with the screen.
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then i think to myself in every culture that i've studied death in there some kind of vessel, some kind of vehicle that takes them to their side. and part of me is like, i don't know what's out there. i don't know what the other side is, but i do know that i need a vessel and need to make my own vessel. and that feeling gives me a very big sense of security in something that i can't control. i can't control what's happening. thing inside of it, my body. but i can't control the thing that i put it in. so the project ah, will started off just finding
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a lamp and then progress from there. and i was pretty young to have such a a, an aggressive thing. yeah. so we went for we had to go full on, so i had a dull woman sucked me hysterectomy and i lived down to remove tennessee. oh, thanks. and so unfortunately when they found that it was pretty advanced and. busy so it's now stage 4, it looks like it's about 3 years that i have left. so one thing i decided i wanted to do was i want to buy my own coffin and i want to carve the entire thing. so one of the things that i do is basically put might, might, oh, i made a bunch of different sizes in here. i think i showed you this drawing before, but this one is the little bit about with life death kind of thing. all right, so we're gonna practice this guy on. he'll be your 1st like practice piece
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i'm happy about mom. i'm taking her of her birthday on friday. oh, we're going to see katie's line. it's a show, it's a, it's a broadway show at the walter cur, and then we're going to go for dinner tonight. so that's thursday. and then so i'll go home. yeah. and then i'll come back, come back. and maybe i need an apartment. i mean, just like even just treatment days, like you don't have to come all the way. i can stay. well i would rent, i would rent 1st, but if it looked like it was something i could buy. yeah, i mean if you can do that, we're crazy. good investment, i mean i'm beginning to think of what life would be like without me around like things. no, but i can, i have, you know, if i have to plan that. i know i, i understand what you're saying. that was in a while. when did we do the other one? do you remember a couple months? so i'm going to come back for you to do appear mermaid, and then well the mermaid also the can do lines online. the lines of the lines of
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poetry. sorry about that. purple, i know it looks like a bruise or something, but it just says the central. yeah. it's a little around you know go down. yeah. very nice to feel like it. thank you. you're welcome. it was for my little you take my cold little hand. i love you so much since i made the decision to do this project, i went back and forth with thinking my family would be okay with it because there
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were times they could see that i was trying to give up. and i have to make sure that they know that this is not some kind of cry for help or suicide. ah, the guess letting go of a lot of stuff that that i thought before and narrowing everything down to what's important like i wanted children who i'd like to have a daughter. ah, who i was basically in the year that maybe was one of the last years i would have
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been able to have a child. and i didn't really think about it. but when someone tells you rocking of ovaries anymore, and like the chemo will make you sterile anyway, sometimes i would think about it, and i would just get angry lou, do to get through that loneliness. but i need this project with thanks. i don't know
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really bad headache. oh you know what it was? i was so afraid to try to go near the feet. maybe i should use a smaller one. see like right there? step on your. no, no, you know, let me move it out of the world. no. just stand where you. it's better, it's better now here. okay, ah, i'm working with a company that ships coffins. they said to me, we're going to set the date to deliver on the 24th. and so i can't wait for that part. and the kind of propels me forward when i think about what it was less than a year ago. i'm getting ready to start the final art project that i do see
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make me worried. and as soon as they closed the schools, i was like, yes, this is gonna push it back to me. i'm doing right stains, as far as i can, i can't work. i can't really go out in even pick up a paper, coffee or anything. so the problem is bad news. mental. what's happening now is i need the art to like
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in this not the most beautiful thing you have ever seen. i mean, it smells so good. usually how i roll. okay. so it's white pine, some literally buried in a white pine box. this was the one i had it bill the size so it's perfect size. it's just a little bit bigger than me. and they don't normally make this shape right here where the heart would be like my head is here. my heart would be here. you know, you're wondering on and i, i love the collaboration. yeah. the way that when a man, i know it's wonderful. if you could see me, i'm smiling. honey. i can see your eyes are so beautiful. they are miley, is it
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a night? mm. i need to explain to my family this project, keeping me rooted and grounded, and ultimately i just want to let them know that they did it fail and it's the opposite. and i want them to be more of a part of it. my father will understand it immediately. i don't know why he and i have that connection and i think your different questions for me than the rest of the family does ah
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on this employee thing. i'm looking for it. right. there's a couple things like i found this print, which is view of the newer quarantine and staten island, which is always cool material. yes, that is real. that's actually a newspaper from the herald. yeah. from herald tribune. that isn't so. and then i love the life. yeah. and then this i restored, i put this back together was all broken pieces. it took a while. and so just want to tell you my friends and family in here and can. and then i've got the space out there to work on and for community stuff. and then i want to show you my last, this is my big project i've been working on. so this would take it off. is my coffin or what do you thing? oh my goodness. yeah. where did you oh, that's okay ari this way. oh
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okay. this exactly fits me. so this is my, this is mike berry, i hope golf and you like that. we really want to mention, i mean, we know we want to mention, i just want to make sure that i, this is my final apartment. you know that i end up in this i like the fact that it's not finished. it's not as you can say that it's not finished, not even close. i would have been done by now if things i didn't do it any way. okay. yeah, it's okay. yeah, but it's not really bad it's, it's growing i
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ah as long as i make this vessel, my vessel as long as my family knows that i would like to be buried in it and my family knows it's because of them and their love and support that i'm doing that. i made the right decision ah undecided store. they once prosperous fishing village sinks beneath the mud,
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