In the series, Bunny (1997 — onwards), the chair was a key component of the work — stuffed tights clamped to chair legs implied splayed legs in an ambiguous expression of either sexual availability or vulnerability. (fadmagazine.com)
In a horticultural sense, rhizomes are the below surface horizontal splay of roots, each with offshoots creating a uniquely, meandering path. (sfaq.us)
In two drawings by the late Elizabeth Murray, one of which is entitled «Whazzat # 1,» a cartoony body splays across the picture plane, as if subjective reality contorted itself in response to a frenetic and tense urban life: they are cubist reveries gone awry. (elizabethmurrayart.org)