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“To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion.” quote by Maya Lin — Download Open image

“To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion.”

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