Mark Miller, a magazine illustrator-turned-vintner who realized his vision of carving a world-class winemaking region from the rocky soil of the Hudson River Valley, died on Sept. 9 at his home in Wilmington, N.C.
Set almost entirely inside a lushly inviting yard, amid patches of bright green lawn, thickets of tree limbs and splashes of purple, pink and orange flowers, this hypnotic 13-minute film carves a miniature world of wonder from a seemingly quotidian setting, a true secret garden from what to ordinary eyes might look like any other yard.
In "Myrlie Evers With Her Children," we have a set of chiseled expressions, carved by a world gone terribly wrong.
Part of me, that's not quite conspiracy theorist but sort of feels that the rulers know that they don't want everyone switching on like that, so they have to keep most of us believing that we're incapable of carving out a world that results in us doing what we want to do.
But after she was grounded by her pregnancy, she went to work with the "chair force": a group of pilots controlling drones from the safety of BarcaLoungers while staring at a screen at "a world carved out of putty".
Still, how captivating to read of their beauty and intelligence, of their emotions, of their mobile trunks and pillar legs, of their vital importance to the ecosystem in which they evolved, and, less happily, of their slaughter by upright apes with AK-47s who only want to take a chainsaw to their tusks so those tusks can be carved into trinkets in a world full of them.
Nearby there's a prayer mat with a world map carved into its fibres.
It's a great device for representing experience from the inside, but it carves the world into a series of perspectives.
Beyond the reach of pop charts and radio formats, Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante has carved out a parallel world as a solo artist over a series of intensely personal and brilliantly realised albums.
A carves out a class of worlds which are rather close to the actual world — all within spheres two to four — whereas B carves out a class rather far from the actual world — all within spheres five to seven.
