# Alyssa Monks: How loss helped one artist find beauty in imperfection

Painter Alyssa Monks finds beauty and inspiration in the unknown, the unpredictable and even the awful. In a poetic, intimate talk, she describes the interaction of life, paint and canvas through her development as an artist, and as a human.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2016
- Runtime: 13 min
- By: TED.com
- Genres: Education, Children's
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/AlyssaMonks_2015X)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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