Back in 2008, when artist Sarah Nicole Phillips worked sorting mail in an office, she discovered the artistic potential of a ubiquitous office supply: security envelopes".While tearing open the envelopes I became mesmerized with the large variety of intricate patterns printed on the inside, to obscure their contents," Phillips tells The Creators Project.
The flap of a tent set up indoors obscures all but the legs and arms of a woman inside.
And the intent of its creators is to turn the inside out, obscuring the humdrum surface reality of our lives and placing our roiling, incoherent private terrors on display.
The FAA debacle has its origins in a classic, if obscure, inside the Beltway drama.
Inside the Lincoln Cafe, obscure alternative rock plays on the sound system, and decent funky art hangs on the exposed brick walls.
The Clippers pulled off their blue warmup jackets in unison and discarded them in a pile near midcourt before the game in a symbolic protest, revealing red warmup shirts turned inside out to obscure the logos.
In an apparent act of protest against racist remarks attributed to Sterling, Clippers players warmed up for their playoff game on Sunday afternoon against the Golden State Warriors with their red T-shirts worn inside out to obscure any team logo.
When the Clippers took the court before Game 4 of their playoff series with the Golden State Warriors on Sunday, the Clippers warmed up with their team-issued gear worn inside out to obscure the team name and logo.
Just as the Clippers had done on Sunday when they took the floor in Oakland, the Heat players all ditched team-issued, branded shirts to reveal that they were wearing warm-up shirts inside out to obscure the team name and logo.
This one is really inside baseball, somewhat obscure - but, if you bear with me, I can promise an intimate look at the delights and dangers of Talmudic study, and also at the men-from-the-boys camaraderie (I use the gendered idiom advisedly) that can develop around Talmudic learning, with certain hazards.
