“I was so disappointed at first [visiting the pyramids in Egypt, in her 20s], because they looked so small, but then when you approached them, they got so big. It's an amazing effect.”

—  Isa Genzken

after 2010, No, It Isn't Supposed to Be Easy' (2013)

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