The wall of Amanda Pratt’s studio is covered in clippings. Notes, quotes, postcards, and pictures she’s collected along the way. She holds up one card which reads: “You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star”. Another: “Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people”. Perhaps the most relevant to our conversation, however, reads: “When shopping becomes salvation, advertising slogans become our litany… When our worth is measured by how much we earn and spend, then the market is destroying the very virtues on which, in the long run, it depends”. “I…

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