By Nattha Keenapan (The story was published in Outlook, Bangkok Post on December 2, 2010) CHIANG MAI, Thailand, November 2010 – Inside one of the many sprawling orange orchards that stretch across northern Chiang Mai's Fang district near the border with Myanmar stands a simple, one-story building with a rough concrete floor, sticks of bamboo for walls and a thatch roof.
"They can put it on the floor, stick their feet in paint and walk on the paper," Mrs. Stern said.
They're just some pennies you pick up off the floor, stick in your pocket, and you're just going in a straight line to you-know-where".
"I saw a Stryker that had the floor stuck to the ceiling, this space was left," the goggled man says, his thumb and forefinger an inch apart.
They would work for hours in silence, he said, moving about the floor, sticking things down, and sometimes when they had finished, they would contemplate what they had done and start to cry.
The same day, in a spacious loft in an artists' colony in the suburbs, Tao Ye and three female members of his TAO Dance Theater rehearsed to no music whatsoever, rolling across the floor, sticking out their left feet with each dancer rising to a knee as one.
There was part of a floor sticking out, with a bed on it.
On the floor, sticking up from the mud are the rusting paraphernalia of daily life in the field - a metal plate and bucket, a mug.
Karen never knew that after everyone else in the family went to bed, I would steal into the living room, lie on the floor, stick my head between a pair of stereo speakers and listen to "Beatles '65″ or "Meet the Beatles" at a barely audible level.
Unlike much of Mr. Serra's recent work, which is steel and made at an industrial mill, "Night Shift" is both hand-made and made for the site -- a fact emphasized by the chunks of gallery flooring stuck in it and the lead splashes preserved on the wall.
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