The rough stone provided a key for a few hundredweights of plaster which Schwitters moulded into sweeping shapes set with odd bits of junk like a broken drainpipe, part of a wheel, bamboo canes and the rose of a watering-can.
Still, there was much to admire, starting with the sweeping shapes Claire Calvert made with her legs, the poetry of Matthew Golding's every move, the expert partnering by all the men, and the razor-sharp style and aplomb of Lara Turk's dancing - even after her pointe shoe ribbons came completely untied.
Another inspiration for the sweeping shape of the upper part of the dashboard was a manta ray.
The sweeping shape is reminiscent of melted roller coaster ride, or as one Twitter user put it: "It looks like congealed intestines".
There's a moveable chain to link the back foot with the front of the ladder, which is a wide sweeping shape, much broader at the base than it is at the top.
The smooth, round case complements the sweeping shape and rounded edges of the headset and unifies a number of shapes and lines into one simple elegant stone.
Another challenge was balancing the three key factors that drive the design: first, the sweeping shape in itself, which needs to be smooth; second, the STONE charger, which has to integrate perfectly with the headset to create a smooth shape; and last, the overall design needs to fit the gamut of ear sizes.
And each is described in Neel's trademark blue outline – looping, breezing, brushing, sweeping in shape and contour – a figure that is then coloured in.
And it was literally sweeping the shaping rooms, garbage, finishing boards.
Last May, shrugging off the negatives, Mr. Gonzalez bought a luxury condominium in the city's downtown, a neighborhood with a chevron shape, sweeping from the compact office district that abuts the McLevy Green and including the more rough-and-tumble South End.
Shells as diverse as Haliotis, Triton, Terebra and Nautilus (illustrated with a halved shell and a radiograph) have this property; different shapes are generated by sweeping out curves (or arbitrary shapes) by rotation, and if desired also by moving downwards.
