While executing a major project of stained-glass (and sliced-stone) windows for Zurich's Grossmünster Cathedral, Polke has also been making eccentric paintings that recycle nearly a half century's worth of his motifs and ideas in a gorgeous guise.
Don't fret about removing the pit if you're aiming to slice the stone fruit.
Another idea is a plum-raspberry compote: slice 8 stoned plums into 6 wedges.
A sculpture of stacked slices of stone, by Ann Hamilton, runs along a curving walkway.
In that spirit, I thought I'd also post a little quasi-poem I wrote a few years ago for Bill Atkinson, an extraordinary man who was one of the founding software designers behind the first Macintosh computers and now, among other things, makes extraordinarily detailed digital photographs both of landscapes and what you might call mineral-scapes — the world revealed by slicing a stone.
FREE-FORM FRUIT TART Time: About 1 1/2 hours 1 1/8 cups (about 5 ounces) all-purpose flour, plus some to dust work surface 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons sugar 10 tablespoons cold unsalted butter 1 egg yolk 2 cups pitted, peeled and sliced ripe stone fruit, like peaches, plums or nectarines (or use apples, pears or berries) Confectioners' sugar, whipped cream, ice cream or crème fraîche.
Doyle's language vibrates with unexpected music - just like the slice of ancient stone in the story, beneath which resonates a horse's skull.
2. Cut through fruit in a crosshatch pattern, then slice down against stone so cubes of mango fall into a bowl.
We spent one afternoon wandering secluded streets like Rue des Portes Mordelaises, which was hidden behind an arched doorway in a remaining slice of the stone ramparts that once protected the city, and into plazas humbler than Place de la Mairie, like Place du Champ Jacquet, which is lined by a fully intact row of those towering timber-framed houses.
As she struggled to cut the soft loaf, the bread knife slipped and sliced into her stone hand, between finger and thumb.
