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Making Art New: Form and Process, Elephant Bed exhibition catalog
by Barbara Matilsky, April 2010
“I am interested in impermanence, at directing our attention to what is compelling within a state of decay or disintegration.”
Floating inches below the surface of the sea are tiny micro-organisms called coccolithophores. Individually, they are too small to see, but grouped together they form such large masses that they can be seen from satellites blanketing hundreds of miles of ocean, coloring the water a bright turquoise.
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