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...piece seems to be a flower with many petals. The blue, a close look at a snowflake and the yellow, a sunburst. None of these images is crisp around the edges—they all seem to fade into the black. The effect of this is that the images acquire movement. This is one of the few techniques Shaw uses that gives his work some intrigue. The snowflake appears to shrink as you look at it. The sun, whose edges are trimmed with orange, looks like it is fluttering. The way Shaw uses color and shading in these works...
...door handle. Songs from Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” float from a laptop, which rests on a desk wrapped entirely in pink crepe paper. Colored Christmas tree lights adorned with sparkly pieces of candy line the molding and the drawers. Colorful flower pots sit in the corner, next to a purple parasol. The floor lamp is ornamented with silver chiffon butterfly wings. Printed patterns of pink and red lipsticks and compacts dot the bedsheets. Even the CD holders and the crutches leaning on the wall are painted pink...
Angelica Rudenstine took to gardening in Elmwood’s flower beds...
Every morning, just after dawn, the first of a group of dignified, luxuriantly bearded Afghans go into a flower-filled garden bounded by a spring-fed stream and open their Korans. Later they pray and eat breakfast, nodding solemnly to the bedraggled foreigners who wander outside. This serene setting is in fact part of the defense ministry of the United Front. Only two things give any hint of the place's real purpose: the crackle of radios and the comings and goings of officers--Bismullah Khan, the overall commander for the area, said to be in intense negotiations with Taliban...
...sangar, resemble little more than piles of rocks. In the peaceful-seeming villages of the plains, military bases blend in with the surrounding houses. Look through the narrow entrances of the high-walled compounds, many built to resemble fortresses, and you never know what you will find--a flower garden or a mortar emplacement. This is a land built for defense--against bandits, lawlessness and foreign invaders. We outsiders are always welcome, but on their terms. It would be best for the U.S. to remember this in the weeks ahead...