Word: leatherizing
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Sheng’s work is accompanied by a small, leather-bound photo album containing around 60 images. “The works duplicate themselves in the album,” Sheng said. The album enhances the road trip feel of the work and adds to the intimacy of the photographs and the trip on which they were taken. Here the photos seem commonplace, whereas with the large prints they serve a more inclusive aesthetic purpose...
...Jesus, when you going to come back?/ Jesus, I dare you to come back.” The highlight of the evening was the swaggering single, “Spread Your Love” which built from its inflated Beatles conceit to a grinding, howling climax. Black leather and dishevelment are back...
...watched Stith slip on her weathered biking gloves, lower the tinted visor of her helmet into place and then close the heavy zipper of her black leather jacket, its metal studs gleaming in the sunlight, my highly developed journalist’s eye told me that this was no run-of-the-mill Harvard woman...
...contest for macho supremacy, I knew I could not hold par with this Amazonian motorcycle high priestess. For God’s sake, Stith was donning a real motorcycle jacket, whose tough black leather had been worn rugged by a thousand rides, whereas the clubby leather jacket I was sporting had barely a crease to show for its one-time trek halfway across the world from some Sri Lankan factory to my dorm room closet...
...section titled "One Designer's Fair," a look at a variety of items by Dutch designer Marcel Wanders, including a patterned black table that had other designers in heated debate as to what it was made made of. Plywood, it turned out, embossed and then stained to resemble leather...