Both in black-wool gabardine, one has silver buttons shaped like roosters; the other features suede appliques of his initials.
This sale will be followed by a more general selection of furniture, pottery, prints, and folk art (Jan . 21, featuring a rooster-shaped weathervane and various naïf portraits.
They turn a child's red balloon into an iron ball and chain, a brightly hued rooster-shaped weathervane into a crow and trees into hangman's gibbets.
Trim skulks off into the night already two hours late for his mushy rice, clutching his rooster-shaped reflector, which glistens in the moonlight.
But the images — including copper weathervanes shaped like cows and horses; faces dotted with hearts and arrows; blue pigs, yellow trucks and pink birds; and a man chasing a rooster — are instantly accessible.
He uses a revolving cast of human, ideogrammatic, geometrical, and animal shapes (rooster, bull, rhino, skull, cross, self-portrait, triangles and pyramids, birds, chimerical sea creatures), and a growing penchant for juxtaposing patterns including the staccato of Aboriginal dot-matrix and the sliding planes of low-polygon Cubism.
Nonetheless, we accept that the 2D image has the shape of a rooster, so the depth cues must be ancillary to our concept of shape.
Hang on, I say, you have a tin clock in the shape of a rooster, but no washing machine?
His least conventional choice (and the most whimsical one) was from the Walmart Web site: a fan in the shape of a rooster.
Yet this silhouette is readily identified as being in the shape of a rooster.
The right image has replaced the boundary edge with an array of dots, and we can still see the stimulus as having the shape of a rooster.
