She moved from primitive and mysterious canvas-covered constructions to much-softer more-fluid creations of natural forms, such as fish and giant flowers, often using plastic that reflects rather than absorbs light.
A single square canvas, dark and primitive, hung above the bed she was hunkered down in.
Ventilation methods were primitive, often limited to waving a canvas at the mouth of the shaft, and most tunnels claimed the lives of hundreds or even thousands of the slaves used as workers.
Captured snakes are stored in canvas bags and sold to primitive skinning plants.
It is painted orange and punctuated, like a primitive ladder, with five short, horizontal pieces of canvas-wrapped wood, each painted white with a portion of a blue triangle.
Living conditions were primitive in the camp, with trainees housed either under canvas in tents or in Nissen huts and they were responsible for cooking their own meals.
Interestingly, there are no paintings by Mr. Basquiat, who died of a drug overdose in 1988, in "Circa 1986," but Mr. Prol's large canvas, "I Have This Cat," from 1985, is an apt surrogate, complete with a primitive figure set against a bleak cityscape marked with graffitilike scrawls.
Ms Anker, for example, recreates chromosomes in sculpture and on canvas, in order, she says, to look at relationships between the body in flesh, its genetic code and primitive alphabets.
