Amir Mogharabi Compositions (detail), 2010 tar, metalic base, ink and cigarette ash on archival sheet music pages, 5 parts each 40 x 49.5 cm (ibidgallery.com)
The standard reference guide for psychiatrists — the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM - IV)-- classifies geophagia as a subtype of pica, an eating disorder in which people consume things that are not food, such as cigarette ash and paint chips. (scientificamerican.com)
Every element clicks into place, from the way the camera catches an errant fleck of cigarette ash as it drops onto Zellweger's devil - red dress to the extratextual resonance of two artists baring their various setbacks and successes through a series of evasively verbal and revealingly visual cues. (hollywoodreporter.com)