Saloua Raouda Choucair's wonderful heap of stone blocks, pierced with little holes, evokes a whole teeming town while Kader Attar's domed city, and the silent desert from which it rises, are made out of gritty couscous.
A cookie, a candy bar, a heap of Lego blocks.
This album begins with upcoming creators MOS's Rainbow Vomit, a digital, interactive, computational heap of building blocks in a constant state of near collapse.
Bulldozers had plowed a path through heaps of cinder blocks, felled power poles, and other detritus.
Some are only heaps of laterite blocks, but many are still astonishing: the towering lotus buds of Angkor Wat, the haunting Ta Prohm, in the clutches of time and strangler figs.
A survivor at one compound, John Gardiner from Kinghorn, Fife, told the BBC: "All the doors came in, the external doors, the internal doors, all the windows, and the next thing I knew I was lying on my back in shattered glass". Yesterday, heaps of rubble and blocks of upended concrete surrounded twisted steel bars and felled palm trees.
But to make extra sure, you need to reduce the entire block to a heap of smoking rubble, and demolish the nearby hospital as well.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — More than two weeks after the earthquake that devastated much of this country's southern half, the capital remains a city of teetering walls, dangling electrical wires and precariously balanced heaps of jagged cinder block and wrought iron, all rattled daily by aftershocks.
A heap of smart sand would be analogous to the rough block of stone that a sculptor begins with.
