The best is a winter scene in which two bare trees cast lavender shadows on the side of a light turquoise garage, giving the thick semi-abstract forms a sudden sense of worldly space.
Both emotional and physical relationships between the figures depicted were realistically expressed, and the spectator was able to identify himself with the lifelike representation of a worldly space inhabited by Christ, his disciples, and saints, wearing updated dress and moving naturally within contemporary settings.
You have to pass through a tunnel to enter this other-worldly space, and once inside, you'll experience binaural sound therapy.
The western section, a kind of nave, is a fine example of a gavit, a dark and bare chamber with stalactite carvings in the vault that served as a burial-place-cum-assembly-hall, a space for worldly business.
"They make the space appear worldly".
Its only separation from worldly affairs, time, and space was through the power of mind and the discipline of daylong practices over several weeks.
It's a look that asks: "are you in my SoulCycle class?", but which suggests a man of the cloth who is always ready to dispense worldly wisdom in a public space.
They may also violate fire codes by cooking with hot plates or on a barbecue, or by stashing all their worldly possessions in their tiny spaces.
However, that same swarming luxuriance of life may also reflect the concern that one must set aside worldly temptations before entering the sacred space of the temple, for the carvings decorate only the outside of the temple; at the centre, the sanctum sanctorum, there is little if any ornamentation, except for symbols of the god or goddess.
"Infinite Line" presents a more nuanced, intellectual and worldly artist: one who talks about space like an architect and vision like an ophthalmologist, who rhapsodizes about the shifting perspective in Chinese painting and makes her own Asian-inspired drawings on long scrolls of paper.
"Because of the light coming through the windows," Ms. Valcu said, "the house has acquired an abstract, unearthly, other-worldly feel, suspended in time and space".
