Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...together local materials such as stones, branches and brush, arranging them in circles or lines often reflecting the contour of the terrain. In "England" Long picked flowers out of a field, leaving a green X of plain grass. Long's groupings are all of a temporary nature--patterns in sand that wash away with the tide, clumps of desert grass that will be scattered by the wind. Long's two photographs of man-made structures are significant: Windmill Hill, home of "the first inhabitants of England to make permanent changes in the landscape," and Coalbrookdale, "the birthplace of the Industrial...
...military commander of the area around Tyre, Major Azmi Zughayar, strode to the top of a sand dune in southern Lebanon. There, above the bamboo and sea grass, he pointed with his walking stick across a sliver of eastern Mediterranean to the shore line of Israel beyond. "That is my country," he told a visitor. "How can I forget? How can any of us forget...
Workers smothered the remaining chemical with dirt and sand last night...
...sand has run out for these lost worlds. In Yemen during the late '60s, Thesiger watches as the medieval mountain fortresses of royalist chieftains are turned into rubble by Nasser's air force. In 1977 he returns to Arabia to find desert life transformed by oil. There are cities where tents once stood, motorcycle tracks instead of the hoofprints of camels, Arab schoolboys in flared trousers, and Bedu complaining that they are not getting enough government handouts. Thesiger is angered and dispirited by this seduction. His own independence and asceticism appear intact, and the only wear and tear...
...sense, Noguchi's tables are like Japanese gardens. As the raked sand of the garden provides an oceanic "world surface" from which the chosen rocks protrude like continents, so the polished surfaces of his table-top sculpture conjure an imagined plain whose sudden rearings and swellings can be seen as mountains or waves. The protrusions seem to heave themselves up, violently, out of the serene surface-an effect emphasized by a sudden change of texture from polished to roughly pecked stone. That, too, is a metaphor of larger geological events: in some real landscapes the mountain does not rise...