While bars and dumbbells have a concise and predictable shape and center of gravity,
odd objects force the athlete to react to the dynamic and unpredictable size, shape, and center of gravity of the object.
While analyzing sails for racing yachts, a team of aerodynamicists has stumbled across a way in which the downward
force from air flowing past an
odd - shaped
object can suddenly turn into a hefty upward lift.
Other noteworthy works were a Katherine Bernhardt canvas of her usual 2 - d miss - mash of
objects, Puppies Puppies, Nolan Simon's Earth which took up most of the What Pipeline (Detroit) booth,
forcing fair - goers to squeeze into
odd spaces and angles to view the paintings on the walls, and Mika Tajima's spray - painted Jacuzzi - like structures at Eleven Rivington (New York).