The whole of space seems compressed into your skull.
How to tell you about a day of wonder, when gaps between the hemispheres blurred and when four styles blended into one in defiance of a timescale that had seemed too compressed by half.
Most powerful are the hieroglyphic carvings, in which human faces, weapons and ornaments seem manically compressed to fill rectangular molds, saturating available space with bulbous images.
On one visit, as "Field" cycled through break-of-dawn lilac, midday cerulean and the blood-orange of sunset, the piece seemed to compress the passage of an entire day into a few short minutes.
For anyone who had to be out yesterday, the heat was like a furnace that pressed down on the spirit and seemed to compress the body from all sides -- corrugated rays rising from the sidewalk, steam hissing in gouts from manholes, black plumes rolling from the exhausts of buses and trucks, and waiting for you in the street ahead, dark asphalt shimmering like a burning lake.
And as the minutes dragged by, and the early evening haze seemed to compress the heat and compound it, the locals talked about whether the summer of '88 was as hot as this one.
A slight to moderate increase in the ventricle size was noted in a subset of the PDGF-AL transgenic mice but the cerebrospinal-like fluid accumulated mostly in the subarachnoid space and seemed to compress the brain from the outside.
They are acts of compression, without seeming to compress.
Repeatedly and remarkably, the curved torsos of the dancers seem to compress down into their lower bodies.
In general, examples chosen for this show seem to compress experiences into abstractions that are occasionally sparked with recognizable images.
