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Word: weightlessly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...meant to be an overt sexual solicitation. "It's more of an invitation," he says, to experience what he calls "osmosis," an existence as form rather than idea. But it's difficult to look at "Bride" and not see in it a female praying mantis made up of weightless rings of paper and metal, like delicate oriental seeds...

Author: By Teri Wang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Visual Art Review: Peter Richards and Karen Boutelle | 3/3/2000 | See Source »

...window of a descending airplane, a city sprawls out in astonishing intricacy, a maze-like network of stacked structures and winding, convoluted pathways. Unfamiliar in unexpected ways, it reveals the obsessive and overwrought patterns of human activity in all their inscrutable complexity. Too bad that, in the last weightless moments before touchdown, the city metamorphoses into something more pedestrian--disappearing, finally, into the invisibility with which we cloak the everyday. Up close, we see nothing...

Author: By Jeni Tu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: DemiMundane: Ruscha's and Gursky's Unreal Cities | 1/14/2000 | See Source »

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