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From National Geographic Magazine, January 2008 High-Tech Trash This image was included in the Photo Gallery related to an article by National Geographic staff writer Chris Carroll concerning High-Tech Trash. To view the article, click here. To see all of the images related to this article, click here.  [Click Image to View Larger Image] From The Austin Chronicle, March 24, 2006 Gentle Disturbances Creating ripples in public space with large-scale art (by Robert Faires) Let's say, just for the sake of argument, that you go strolling up the Avenue one fine day and find the Texas State Capitol completely covered in yellow fabric. I mean, completely covered, from the cornerstone up to the Goddess of Liberty's star, every square inch of pink granite – House chamber, Senate chamber, dome, all of it – obscured by a million square feet of polypropylene fabric the shade of a yellow rose (and tied down with 50,000 feet of cobalt blue rope). Three weeks our capitol looks like this, and then it doesn't. The statehouse-sized Christmas present is unwrapped, the wrapping taken away, and the building looks like it has every time the Lege has come to town since the thing was built. [ Full Article ] From The Casper Star Tribune, November 1, 2005 Syrian artist finds inspiration in America By DUSTIN BLEIZEFFER Star-Tribune staff writer GILLETTE -- At first, George Sabra could only imagine what it looked like to be inside the storm -- circular chaos. Then he went to work, sculpting his vision. The result was three separate pieces, all swirling blades of stainless steel and bronze inlaid with granite -- the upheaval of earth into the heavens. Sabra felt especially saddened that something as horrible as Hurricane Katrina should happen to the United States. It was unfair.[ Full Article ] |
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