Word: abstraction
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...weak investor rights and shaky financial systems, where people distrusted banks and the stock market and preferred to store their wealth in tangible assets, chiefly gold and property. The recent economic boom has given Indians a range of sophisticated and relatively secure financial instruments: mutual funds, stocks, bonds, even abstract art. Richer Indians are, indeed, diversifying their investments. "At the top end of society, yes, [gold] consumption is beginning to decrease," says K. Shivram, a vice president of the World Gold Council in Madras. The current surge in demand is being driven by the middle class and even...
Katia Eliad, a Paris-based artist, was stuck in a rut. She felt blocked in her creativity, out of touch with herself and for some inexplicable reason unable to use green or blue in her abstract paintings. So last spring, she started an unusual treatment: daily two-hour sessions of Mozart's music for three weeks at a time, filtered through special vibrating headphones that sometimes cut out the lowest tones. The impact, she says, was dramatic. "I'm much more at ease with myself, with people, with everything," says Eliad, 33. "It feels like I've done 10 years...
...memorial to the victims of the tsunami, which killed as many as 8,000 people in Thailand and nearly 300,000 around the region a year ago. The memorial's design is being chosen through an international competition whose key mandates are harmony with nature, and subtlety: abstract references to the disaster are preferred to literal representations. "We didn't want any design involving waves," says one of the seven jurors, Swedish interior architect Jonas Bohlin. "If you've been through the tsunami, you don't want to walk under a wave again." After sifting through 379 entries from...
...Liang Hou: "After the disaster, people want to be closer to the gods, closer to what they believe, and most importantly closer to each other," says Shanghai-based architect Liang Hou. His proposal, a Stonehenge-like structure of massive white blocks, forms an abstract, architectural sculpture of people dancing in a circle...
...Raveevarn Choksombatchai: A tube-like bridge designed by this Thai-born, California-based architect is the most abstract design to make the cut, and it's also one of the most visually intriguing. Built from a lattice of wood and other natural materials, it's meant to blend in with the surrounding forest, prompting visitors to reflect on humans' relationship with nature...