The boulders are used with figurative pieces built in layers of bluestone, which he sometimes salvages from old sidewalks.
From the still photographs documenting "One" and "Autumn Rhythm," Mr. Karmel learned that Pollock painted figures, obscured them, then overpainted the abstract layers with more figures, creating a semi-abstract, semi-figurative web.
Early on, Ledgard mentions the idea of face transplants -- now a reality in medical science, though still one fraught with layers of literal and figurative meaning.
Throughout "Savage Lands," the figurative language piles up like heavy jewelry, like layers of clothing, like armor, like..
Moreover, often white layers of blankness - sometimes circular and figurative, other times horizontal and representational - convey abstract visual perception.
His more recent figurative work, including a six-foot-tall figure entitled "Shemai'ah," is created from individually carved layers of blue stone.
Ms. Moyer shares her penchant for precision layering with Stephen Mueller and her ambiguous figurative abstraction with Nicola Tyson.
Modernist design has influenced scads of other authors, whose books have relied more on building layers of design elements than on traditional figurative illustration.
It involved painting liquid clay paste in shallow layers on the surface of an undecorated object, then tooling a figurative decoration in the paste.
Researchers then scoured the globe for thin layers of radioactive isotopes in rock strata and in 1999 struck figurative gold: Samples from beneath the ocean revealed some hard metallic layers, known as ferromanganese crusts that form slowly over millions of years, containing iron-60, an isotope with a half-life of 2.6 million years—so short that the material must be much younger than Earth.
