Sentences with phrase «acacia thorn»
Each work is oblong, and combines a smooth, carved slab of marble with a canvas covered in sharp, jagged acacia thorns.
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Working in a stunning variety of materials — including wood, stone, metal, plaster, resin, acacia thorns — the artist makes palpable and present the analogous processes of nature and art: carving large trees along their growth patterns to reveal the sapling contained within; elaborating the interior space of his closed hand into a large - scale sculpture that both contains his hand and enlarges the space it contains; rendering the swirling mists of his breath in the cold in tactile clay forms that contain the impression of his body.
He explores drawing in many mediums, using pencil and charcoal on paper or directly on the walls of galleries, creating images using natural materials such as acacia thorns and silk, as well as carving lines through marble or moulding wax to wood.
Not exact matches
The vicious thorns of the acacia tree, insects flying around the eyes — these are no match for the tongue of the giraffe, one of the longest in the animal kingdom.
The mutualistic association between acacia plants and the ants that live on them is an excellent example: The plants provide food and accommodation in the form of food bodies and nectar as well as hollow thorns which can be used as nests.
The acacia also provides shelter, the so - called domatia, in the hollows of its swollen thorns.
In areas with few herbivores acacia plants don't bother to churn out many of the off - putting thorns.
Using a catapult powered by a bungee cord, the experts launched a small airplane over the deep and dark landscape, thick with acacia trees sporting 5 - centimeter (2 - inch) thorns.
Land of pastoral futurism, where herdsmen wave cheerfully at spaceships zooming above the umbrella - thorn acacias, and earth - toned skyscrapers rise from the savanna like David Adjaye versions of the Watts Towers.
Maggie Whitson added the English common name «Spoon - thorn acacia» to «Acacia cochliacantha Willd.».