This is exemplified by a series of small tabletop pieces from 1976 that suspend delicate sheets of plastic printed with red or yellow grids or green leaves from little goal posts of wire embedded in wood bases.
Fine transparent sheets of phyllo (also known as fillo or filo) dough, like the ones used in this recipe for Greek-style dinner pie, are notoriously difficult to work with, primarily because the delicate sheets begin to dry as soon as they are exposed to air.
Delicate sheets of cellulose with electrodes attached could be used to make microrobots, biodegradable sensors, and paper airplanes that flap like birds.
And for some reason, not quite everybody in the sprawling restaurant is plowing through baby-leek frittura or heaps of mandilli with almond pesto, but that may be just an optical illusion — the guy manipulating the delicate sheets of mandilli pasta over in a corner of the open kitchen seems to be the busiest man in the restaurant.
It looks like extremely thin and delicate sheets of silver or gold foil, but it is perfectly edible.
The dough can be tricky to work with because the delicate, flexible sheets become brittle when exposed to air.
The picturesque lasagna Bolognese is stacked with delicate pasta sheets and a pungent ragù, but it doesn't quite work when it arrives lukewarm.
The use of gelatin also allows for the easy manipulation of delicate cell sheets using forceps.
In "Loving Care" (1993), she washed the floor with her hair; in "Butterfly Kisses" (also 1993), she used her mascaraed eyelashes to trace patterns both dense and delicate onto a sheet of paper.
For the "Carceri" works, I set up a variety of mark-making implements -- among them acrylic paint, charcoal, conte, oil pastel, ink, graphite -- alongside the edge of a large sheet of delicate Japanese paper in a random, chaotic order.
