Looking at a grid of sixty faces from his collection is like trying to play a game of criminal Guess Who.
The camera feed is reduced in resolution to a grid of four hundred gray-scale pixels, transmitted to his tongue via a corresponding grid of four hundred tiny electrodes on the lollipop.
She enlarged a photograph of the hall's east end, a hulking wall comprising a grid of two vertical panels separated by rows of tall, narrow windows.
One of his most memorable pieces is Self-Burial (Television Interference Project), which exists as a grid of nine sequential photographs made in 1969.
The first element was a grid of four hundred photocells, corresponding to the light-sensitive neurons in the retina; they received the primary optical stimuli.
To switch windows, press the menu key — the one that's a grid of four squares — and tap Windows in the options that appear onscreen.
A grid of five horizontal fluorescent bars in pink, yellow, blue and green on five vertical metal supports, it is placed across a corner where it lends a festive presence to the severe architecture of the basement galleries.
Another, also from 1973, features a grid of six Polaroids in which racy portraits of Mapplethorpe and David Croland, his friend and one of his early lovers, alternate with photographs of a public sculpture.
"Green Veil," which measures about 4 by 20 feet, is a grid of two dozen frames, each a different image of translucent green chiffon floating, fluttering or twisting against a white background.
With the door closed behind her, she calls Cyn and bursts out: "Guess where I am?" An exterior shot slowly zooms out to reveal her window as one of a grid of nine, then 25, then 49, then 81.
