Word: stencils
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Spero gleans her own images from a vast array of time periods and cultures, ranging from Egyptian figures to prehistoric African wall-drawings to images of women from the 1920s. A photograph or an outline of an image is then transferred to a rubber stencil, which can be used to make repeated color prints...
...importance of process to this art cannot beexaggerated. As the installation progresses, andSpero learns that many of the pieces in theSackler's collection are funerary, she decides toinclude a Mexican image of a skeleton. "Isn't itscary?" she asks, holding up the black stencil ofa shrouded skeleton...
...Enola Gay, shorn of its wings, its long fuselage in two parts, commands center stage in this singular historical drama. There is something spiritual and awesome about walking up to the silver flank with the stencil that was put on a few days after the B-29's famous mission: FIRST ATOMIC BOMB, HIROSHIMA...
...entered the airline business last week. He bought the shuttle from Frank Lorenzo, who owns Texas Air, which owns Eastern, for roughly $365 million in cash. For that Trump gets a fleet of 17 Boeing 727s, landing facilities in Boston, New York City and Washington, and the right to stencil his already ; household name on the tail of an Establishment institution. And never one to leave well enough alone, Trump vowed to run it as a "diamond," with immaculate planes swooping in and out on time, providing his signature brand of first-class service to passengers who recognize it when...
...customers, double the number in 1979, ordered personal designs etched into their gravestones, taking advantage of a technique developed in recent years. A few other firms are also beginning to use it. Says Vice President David Quiring: "People come in with a sketch of what they want. We stencil it, cut it into rubber, and using sandblast grains, we can make a fine, detailed picture" on granite...