Word: grid
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They think Ko Pha-Ngan is their special place, even though it may be just the latest port of entry for kids in their generation to go off the grid and out of their heads. Previous generations too have wandered everywhere from Key Largo to Kathmandu for post-school, pre-career adventures. A few stumbled upon scenes where they felt, for a few magical moments, that the old rules didn't apply. But just as those paradises were transformed by the brutal economics of tourism, Ko Pha-Ngan is already morphing into a travel brochure. Electricity arrived in 1997. Roads...
...directional arrows and predictably spaced gas stains are suddenly mesmerizing--and humorous. One stand-out is the photograph of the Dodger Stadium parking lots: emanating radially from the stadium like the leaves of an artichoke, they are at once industrial and organic. Ruscha's painted evocations of Los Angeles' grid-like topography (straight lines, written names) likewise succeed in turning our personal (and local and national) geographies topsy-turvy...
...years old when he made this painting, which is remarkably late for an artist to find his major style," Cooper said. "That grid of lines you see in cubist paintings has become the entire subject, and whatever still-life objects there might have been within that grid have been dismissed...