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...rest of the work featured in the exhibit illustrates her appreciation for the look and feel of things. From the early drawings she did with acrylic and correction fluid on Chartwell paper, showing her preoccupation with lines and textures, to the series of doors that she cast out of plaster from real doors, she seems to appreciate the underappreciated object. The most compelling piece, Cabinet XI, along with Whiteread’s paper collages, clarifies the conceptual basis for “Place (Village).” Cabinet XI is a metal cabinet, made of the same material...
...sometimes try to use humor and say something like, "Did you forget your meds today?" And sometimes you just have to smile your way through it. Half the time we're savaging the customers. We're verbally abusing the customers in the back, and then we walk out and plaster a smile on our faces. Two seconds earlier we were describing them in very vulgar terms. I was once called the rudest waiter in the neighborhood...
...master of the old-fashioned technique of special-effects makeup--in which spirit gum, plaster casts and armor work, not computer fiddling, do the trick--Winston wanted more than audiences' screams. Often he earned their sympathy, as in the baleful, soulful face and kitchen-cutlery fingers of Edward Scissorhands and the mandroid smoothness of the robo-gigolo in A.I.: Artificial Intelligence. "I don't do special effects," Winston said. "I do characters...
Contemporary moms-to-be are embracing, and memorializing, being in the family way: commissioning artistic photographs of themselves, having their bellies cast in plaster and paying for 3-D sonograms that they frame or bind in prebaby albums. Says Jennifer Loomis, who has photographed nearly 2,000 pregnant women from all over the country: "People are looking to capture this moment in their lives because it's so fleeting...
That's how Karen DeSemple, 40, felt when she was carrying her third, and last, child. "I spent many days in front of the mirror looking at my belly," she says. Her company, Eternal Maternal, is now one of several that sell belly-casting kits for making plaster memories, which many women decorate, hang in nurseries and consider heirlooms...