Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lake Placid used an existing path running down a wooded hillside. Miss designed a series of gates and fences along the path, the uppermost gate framing a spectacular view. Another work, built for the Battery Park landfill site in New York City, consisted of a series of flat wooden structures with holes cut in them. If the viewer stood at one end, the holes would be in alignment and the viewer could focus on a measured expanse of open land...
Miss also involves the viewer in perceptual games which distract from an appreciation of the works themselves. Specifically, Miss repeatedly confuses one's perception of space by exaggerating perspective. In Perimeters/Pavillions/Decoys, an outdoor piece done on Long Island in 1978, Miss sets up three apparently identical wooden towers on a field. The towers, however, actually decrease in size as they recede into the distance, so that the last tower appears farther away than it actually is. In an indoor piece which resembles a walled-in staircase, Miss abbreviates the perspective by angling the walls together as the stairs recede...
Something is wrong with the crucifix. Hanging in the tiny church in a Virginia country town, it distresses the new pastor. The wooden corpus, Monsignor Vincent Shepherd observes, has "square, unsuffering eyes" that symbolize to the priest so much that is wrong with his church and his world. The sense of crucifixion is gone. Instead, he reflects, "it was as if Christ had never really suffered and died, but had only had the Last Supper, with twelve smiling men of social commitment and three folk guitarists, and then knocked the stone away from the tomb...
...MBTA project has also been bogged down by labor troubles. This summer the pile drivers who build the wooden floors above the construction walked out for three weeks. That isn't all. The plumbers' union has been out since August 31. Construction crews have been building around the plumbing sites, Gary Balboni, the project engineer for Perini Construction Co., says, adding, however, that "we can't do that forever...
...dogs' teeth and its scalp matted with human hair, could coexist with a high order of technical skill. What survived the auto-da-fe in greater quantity was decorative art of lesser iconographic content: not gods, but feather robes, bone or whale-tooth ornaments, and the beautifully carved wooden containers, irregular in their polished silkiness, from which the Hawaiians ate their poi, a sort of tropical office paste made of taro roots...