Depending on its size, the bisected node was embedded in one or more paraffin blocks.
Where Cole's painting shows an early-19th-century artist adopting nature as a signature American theme, complete with golden lighting and allegorical, political and spiritual overtones, Davis's nearly abstract canvas with a bisected tree at its center suggests that this emphasis on nature endured well into the modern era.
It is a small, bisected space that she uses for making music, sleeping, and smoking.
Admittedly it wasn't quite as mysterious a case as the two halves of the (as it turned out) two bisected women that so dramatically ushered us into the twist and turns of series one.
I walked twenty or thirty blocks looking for the pawnshop, turned corners and bisected intersections, and looked up its name in the phone books and asked people walking past me if they'd ever heard of it.
It was a pallid, perfectly bisected square.
Instead of a canvas, it's done on a bisected surface that's half translucent resin, half tacky wallpaper.
The expansiveness of the exhibition takes off from there, ranging from works like Adam Liam Rose's View I, a birdhouse-esque sculpture that hides digital skyscapes within its peephole, to The Flood by Pablo Montealegre, a bisected corner painting of household goods crashing down a waterfall.
For me, growing up in the north of Nigeria, the symbolism seemed very different: it showed one half of a wilfully bisected country, and I was living in the half that the insurrection had rendered invisible.
Jason's bisected personality, if that's what it is, has a mirror image in his mother's—she's a sweet Sunday-school matron who also has rough sex with another boy in the puppet class.
