Its nautilus shape recalls Tatlin's utopian monument, not coincidentally.
The hall shape recalls the well-regarded Maltings Concert Hall in Snape, England.
The stool's graceful shape recalls a butterfly's wings, and has also been compared to the form of torii, the traditional Shinto shrine gates.
The MissionL has a rather handsome notchback form and a rear end whose shape recalls that of the current Audi A4.
The circular shape recalls the round pit houses of the prehistoric Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi) from whom the Pueblo tribes are thought to have descended.
The shape recalls one of those performing-arts centers that were built on college campuses in the nineteen-sixties, or a suburban church, blown up to monumental scale and produced on an exquisitely refined level.
In a rendering of a nude splayed awkwardly on a rug, her contour, crowned by a mop of red hair, is flattened against the rug to create an almost abstract shape, recalling this 81-year-old artist's start in the 1950's as an abstractionist.
"I was in darned good shape," recalls Patrick.
The motif of curtains at the top is often found in monuments using Gothic decorative details, and the shape recalls the triangular gable tops of monuments in a more thoroughly Gothic style; other monuments have curtains, often held open by angels, around the effigy, and then sculptures above.
Some of the more sculptural shapes recall his sense of theatre.
