Ten minutes later, we were in the lumber department at Rickel's and my father was whistling, loading a steel dolly with tall sheets of plywood, eight-foot-long two-by-fours, and thin pieces of delicate oak trim.
The most powerful of all the hypnotic drawings in Vienna is a diptych of two tall sheets resting against each other at an angle, like the pages of a gigantic book.
The show also includes four paintings on translucent sheets of white acrylic and one diptych on two tall sheets of white Mylar.
These sheets are available in pre-cut business card size or standard 8.5-inch (21.59 cm) wide by 11-inch (27.94 cm) tall sheets.
And the Axiom certainly looks like the SUV of the future, with a wagonlike sleekness from the side that's a sort of optical illusion, since although the Axiom is about the height of most SUVs, it gets shorter windows and taller sheet metal, giving it car proportions.
The final product is an eight-foot-tall sheet of Plexiglas, molded into the shape of a voluptuous woman as if, say, Pamela Anderson had run into a wall of molten plastic and had her every curve and bump preserved unto eternity.
A 14-foot-tall sheet-metal fence topped by coils of razor wire stretches to the horizon.
At the far end of the room hung two thirteen-foot-tall sheets of cloth, mounted at right angles to each other, which displayed perfect digital images of, respectively, the front and back of "The Unicorn in Captivity".
The volumes, with lists of names, dates and prices scrawled on foot-tall sheets of rag paper, puzzled the few scholars who paid any attention to them until just last year.
The nine-foot-tall ice sheet, shaped like a phallus, is considered to be the symbol of Lord Shiva, one of Hinduism's three most revered gods.
