Sentences with phrase «conical holes»

Not exact matches

Realized the same year as Conical Intersect (and part of the reason Matta - Clark fled to France in the first place) and placed next to it, Day's End saw the artist cutting massive holes in an abandoned warehouse on the Hudson pier.

For the Biennale de Paris in 1975, he made the piece titled Conical Intersect by cutting a large cone - shaped hole through two townhouses dating from the 17th century in the market district known as Les Halles which were to be knocked down in order to construct the then - controversial Centre Georges Pompidou.

Thus we have berm, a lovely word for a longish mound used for landscaping; pingos, if you're up north, where they'll be rather large conical upthrusts of ice covered with some soil (and, of course, given the yin / yang of this business, further south also a circular depression typically filled with water); further south still you'll trip over drumlins, formations made up of till left by receding glaciers, and not to be confused with eskers, which seem to have formed within holes inside glacier.