The Guggenheim continued to perfect the use of its signature spiral rotunda with an impeccable retrospective of On Kawara's time - based paintings, postcards and telegrams that made it a kind of mortal coil. (nytimes.com)
Later works of the 1990s and the 2000s, such as Mortal Coils (1995) and Vespers Pool (2000) are centred on symbolic and figurative representations of death, moving between conscious and unconscious worlds. (artlyst.com)
Motors keep them turning, slowly, as Mortal Coils. (haberarts.com)