She revolutionised the possibilities of carving by insisting on complex interiors to her work, as well as smooth exteriors, overcoming personal tragedy through her art.
It may be 30 years since Beyond Thunderdome, the film might have hopped a continent (exteriors were filmed in Namibia) and now fronted by an international cast of movie stars led by a Brit (Tom Hardy) and a South African (Charlize Theron), but the quintessential antipodean humour, sensibility and vision is integral and immovable.
The resort's lodges have been constructed to blend into the surroundings: their simple mud-and-straw exteriors conceal sumptuous interiors awash with traditional Berber cushions, a profusion of rugs, hand-sculpted bathrooms and huge, comfortable beds.
My colleague notes the type of distortion created by the fact that residents tend to experience neighbourhoods as a set of aesthetic exteriors, and thus undervalue all of the things that are or could be going on inside the buildings one might put on a given property.
Those modern sharks that eat shelled animals have robust teeth for crunching through hard exteriors.
Heat must be pumped actively from their interiors to their exteriors.
And beneath their maverick exteriors, such outfits are reassuringly obsessed with cost control.
But then you have to feed them to palm civets, wait while they pass through the animals' guts (having their fleshy exteriors digested as they go) and be ready to collect them when they come out of the other end.
Exteriors displayed carved rhythmic moldings and figures.
For the first time the Corinthian order was used for temple exteriors, and work was resumed on the great Temple of Olympian Zeus at Athens, financed by an Eastern king, Antiochus IV Epiphanes.
Structural logic was obscured by the virtual covering of the exteriors of buildings with tracery, which often decorated masonry as well as windows.
