He is an exciting prospect as an emerging leg-spinner and will be looking to make the most of his opportunity".
Here and there, crudely described body parts emerge: legs, breasts, arms and, in one case, whole figures.
Human forms, like a man's trousered leg emerging mysteriously from a wall, are clearly rendered but clearly invented.
For him, he continued, the trail of research that led to induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells the epochal advance that earned him the prize began with his amazement at a photograph of a Drosophila (fruit fly) with a leg emerging from its eye.
It was accepted wisdom that the average feminist couldn't tell bad indigestion from a head emerging between her legs, and that therefore the country was overrun with women in big shirts who didn't know they were pregnant.
Erwin Wurm's absurdist but pointed arrangements also charm in both the personal and commercial areas, though his image of a woman's legs in high heels sticking straight up out of a trash can comes uncomfortably close to Hustler's notorious cover image of a woman's legs emerging from a meat grinder.
Examples include Jacques Prévert's transformed color postcard of a castle on a hill, with a giant old man's head and legs emerging from either end and a tiny pair of Victorian spectators in the foreground; and Joseph Cornell's web of triangular diagrams -- with here a tiny man wielding a hammer and chisel and there a stocky disapproving woman viewed from the rear.
One nicely bawdy scene has a seated woman finding that the legs emerging from beneath her long skirt have a powerful life independent of her and are virile: the discovery is partly one of polite embarrassment, partly one of lascivious delight.
Rivera is represented by "Sunflowers," an oil-on-wood portrait of children playing beneath dreamlike overgrown flowers, and a portrait of Natasha Gelman reclining alongside giant calla lilies, with her legs emerging from her white dress like the pistil of a flower.
Climb all over a massive sculpted man, head, arms and legs emerging from the sand on National Harbor's only beach.
