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A weathered carved wooden form with greyed surfaces rests on a pale plinth, one end showing clear exposed end grain, against a plain wall.

Weathered Wood Shows Its End Grain

A rounded river stone is carved all over with a shallow abstract relief of flowing parallel lines and soft ridges and rests on a dark slab in dramatic side light.

Rounded River Stone With Flowing Carved Ridges

A fictional adult neck and collarbone cast in warm bronze with coiled wax cord ridges for creases and green patina in the folds, resting on a plain stone plinth.

Adult Neck and Collarbone in Cast Bronze

A weathered limestone wall carries a large shallow abstract spiral relief of flowing bands with moss in the joints and a small climbing vine in expressive oil paint.

Spiral Relief Carved Into a Mossy Limestone Wall

A fossil fern frond in charcoal and rust is pressed into a pale clay slab before angled cubist planes of painted faux wood grain in honey and walnut and flat teal and cream.

Fossil Fern Frond Pressed Into Clay Before Cubist Planes

A low horizontal wooden form balances on two broad flat supports on a long pale plinth against a plain wall in even gallery light.

Horizontal Wooden Form Balanced on Two Broad Flat Supports

A curved carved wooden form with one deep smooth hollow rests on a pale plinth against a plain wall in even gallery light.

Curved Carved Wooden Form With Deep Hollow on Plinth

The Aztec rain god Tlaloc with goggle eyes ringed by serpents, long fangs and a feather crown holds a lightning staff beside a rain jar among storm clouds in turquoise mosaic shards.

Aztec Rain God Tlaloc in Turquoise Mosaic With Lightning

Two interlocking abstract wooden shapes meet at one clear joint on a pale plinth against a plain wall in even gallery light.

Interlocking Wooden Shapes Meeting at Joint on Pale Plinth

A surreal clay-like fractal landscape at sunset.

Surreal clay-like fractal landscape at sunset

Concrete ideas — concrete thought bubbles rising from a head

Two houses stand in a storm in a quilled paper relief, a small stone house on a high rock standing firm in streaming rain while a house on sand slumps into quilled flood waves beneath layered clouds.

Two Houses in a Storm, One on Rock

A tall wall of folded white paper tiles stands on a pale stone plinth braced from behind by two triangular clear glass prism wedges pushed against its back face at the base, like buttresses.

Glass Prism Wedges Brace a Standing Paper Wall

A warm sandstone overhang forms a dry alcove with a small lantern inside while slanting rain and teal storm clouds pass beside it under a low ochre sun disc.

Sandstone Rock Shelter Staying Dry Above a Rain Storm

Extreme close-up of a fictional face in cracked gray impasto split by one vertical rust-orange seam, rope braids, ochre brushwork backdrop.

Rust Seam Splitting a Gray Painted Face

A plain ceramic dinner plate upright on a museum stand has one long crack closed by a row of small flat metal staple mends, with a blank label card beside it.

Metal Staples Hold a Cracked Dinner Plate Together

A sketchbook page shows five different small stone carvings in a row, a pebble, a pillar, a flat tile, a squat block and an arch, each with a different abstract relief.

Sketchbook Page of Five Small Stone Carvings

A lizard with scales of keyboard keys, a head of black casing, a tapering ribbon cable tail and connector pin feet crawls across a plain pale studio ground.

Lizard in Keyboard Key Scales With Ribbon Cable Tail

Chain of thought: a side-view sculptural product photograph under soft raking light, where five hollow speech-bubble-shaped pale metal links form one genuinely interlocked chain emerging from the temple of a smooth ceramic head, each bubble holding a different small carved object such as a key,…

Chain of thought — chain of speech-bubble links from a head

The Egyptian sky god Horus, a falcon-headed man in the double crown with spread falcon wings and a raised ankh, stands before a pylon with turquoise, gold and red discs in fine engraved lines.

Egyptian God Horus With Falcon Wings and Crown

Seeing red: tense ceramic portrait bust with red glass disks set into its eye openings, twin red viewing cones turning a small gray cube red, isolated on transparency with a soft contact shadow.

Seeing red — ceramic bust seeing red through eye disks

A large upright carved stone slab with a flowing abstract relief stands behind broken fragments of the same stone with a small pile of chips and a green fern in crayon.

Broken Stone Fragments in Front of a Carved Slab

The Egyptian sun god Ra, a falcon-headed man with a golden sun disc and rearing cobra, stands in his solar barque holding an ankh and a was sceptre in bold planes.

Egyptian Sun God Ra With Disc in Solar Barque

A tiny robed weaver works before a colossal half-carved stone giant under a swirling cream-and-gold sky, an orange cloth band bridging them.

Weaver Before the Unfinished Colossus

A garden fork with an old steel head and a pale new ash handle lies diagonally on a long museum plinth with a blank label card at one end.

A New Ash Handle Revives the Garden Fork

The Egyptian crocodile god Sobek, a crocodile-headed man with a sun disc and horns, stands among papyrus reeds at the Nile with palms and a pylon in jewelled beads.

Egyptian Crocodile God Sobek at the Nile in Beadwork

A forked abstract wooden sculpture rests on a pale plinth against a plain wall, the wood grain running unbroken through both arms of the fork.

Forked Wooden Sculpture With Unbroken Grain on Pale Plinth

An open drowned plaza holds a collapsed stone fountain broken across its own basin with light shafts falling across the paving in clear blue water.

A Collapsed Fountain Breaks Across the Plaza

The Yoruba orisha Oya, in a deep maroon wrap and flowing scarf, holds a machete and a horsetail whisk on a hilltop in a whirlwind beside a water buffalo in layered wax paint.

Yoruba Storm Orisha Oya Commanding the Whirlwind

Seeing the big picture: a gallery wall of hundreds of small gray tiles forms one large calm human face, while one visitor steps back with hands in pockets to take in the whole and a second visitor bends to a single tile with a magnifier on a thin stand.

Seeing the big picture — tiles form face from distance

A porcelain-like abstract sculpture of layered flowing folds and smooth matte surfaces emits warm inner light from cavity openings, presented in a refined minimalist museum scene and framed in 16:9.

Porcelain-like abstract sculpture with inner glow

An ancient stone hourglass glows with divine light in a mythic surreal landscape as stardust sand flows endlessly and a lone figure approaches like a solemn timekeeper in a vertical 9:16 frame.

Ancient stone hourglass and lone timekeeper

One abstract wooden form hangs suspended from a plain cord attached at its top against a plain wall above a pale plinth in even gallery light.

Abstract Wooden Form Suspended From Cord Above Pale Plinth

The Great Sphinx of Giza lies couched in the desert at dawn with the pyramids rising behind it and raking golden light across its face in layered wax paint.

Great Sphinx and Pyramids at Dawn in Wax Paint

Rows of small stones on pale desert sand with an olive branch across the front row, a clay bowl of water and a low sun behind a ridge in soft olive watercolor.

Small Stones and an Olive Branch on Desert Sand

A woman with light brown skin, a short black bob with a fringe and a gold nostril stud in a paint-splashed denim apron adjusts her large abstract canvas of ultramarine and ochre bands on a white wall in a bright community hall beside a stepladder and a spirit level on the floor.

Painter Hangs Her Own Canvas in the Exhibition Hall

The Aztec god Tezcatlipoca, striped in black and yellow with an obsidian mirror and a jaguar cloak, stands beside a prowling jaguar under a starry night sky in polished cut lacquer.

Aztec Night God Tezcatlipoca With Obsidian Mirror and Jaguar

The Egyptian goddess Hathor with cow ears and a golden sun disc between horns, a beaded collar and a sistrum stands before a papyrus thicket in nested cut lacquer layers.

Egyptian Goddess Hathor With Sun Disc and Horns

Egyptian God Osiris Enthroned With Crook and Flail

The Mesopotamian Lamassu, a winged bull with a bearded human head and a tall horned crown, guards a stepped palace gateway in white line wood engraving.

Winged Bull Lamassu Guarding a Palace Gateway in Engraving

The young Maya Maize God with an elongated head, jade ornaments and long maize silk hair raises a bundle of corn among tall maize stalks in pressed paper pulp relief.

Maya Maize God Rising With Corn and Jade Ornaments

A stylized printed map shows the Great Pyramid and the Sphinx rising as tiny landmarks while a slender Nile ribbon winds past palm trees and small camels within a 16:9 framed scene.

Great Pyramid and Sphinx on Map

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