Diaz merges metaphysical, scientific, and technological phenomena into vibrant geometric compositions.
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'The World Has Dropped Its Petals' is a series of elaborately detailed drawings illuminating the world of flowers.
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Everyday objects "help set a mental stage for the abstract process of thinking about the past," Ledford says.
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"To have something be uncanny, you must first introduce the familiar," says Lizzie Gill.
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Xunaa Shuká Hít is a sacred house for the Indigenous community and an educational site for visitors.
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Laramée manipulates bound text blocks into craggy cliff faces and rocky promontories.
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Through intimate, mixed-media collages, Stan Squirewell excavates the stories of those who might otherwise be lost in anonymity.
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Plants are plentiful, but animals don't exist in the alternate realm of Tarogramma.
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Grzybacz invokes the power of alliances through a sense of tenderness, curiosity, and pliability.
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"More recently, Billboard ranked Grande, who also writes and produces her own work, high on its list of the greatest pop stars of the 21st century. ... Rolling Stone has been similarly effusive, praising 'a whistle tone that rivals Mariah Carey’s in her prime.'" — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Feb. 2025
Did you know?
English speakers have used effusive to describe excessive outpourings since the 17th century. Its oldest and still most common sense relates to the expression of abundant emotion or enthusiasm, but in the 1800s, geologists adopted a specific sense characterizing flowing lava, or hardened rock formed from flowing lava. Effusive can be traced, via the Medieval Latin adjective effūsīvus ("generating profusely, lavish"), to the Latin verb effundere ("to pour out"), which itself comes from fundere ("to pour") plus a modification of the prefix ex- ("out"). Our verb effuse has the same Latin ancestors. A person effuses when speaking effusively. Liquids can effuse as well, as in "water effusing from a pipe."