Lines
crisscrossing the inner surface allow an observer to determine the time during different months of the year: A line far from the center marks clock times in December when shadows are long, while lines nearer the center correspond to times in each of the remaining months.
If one thing matters, everything matters, the more than 2,400-image book that functions as and generously exceeds the role of--an exhibition catalogue for Wolfgang Tillmans's 301-photograph, two-video, seven-room monographic monster at Tate Britain, includes a hand-drawn,
crisscrossing flowchart that anatomizes and interlinks the several dozen subject matters he has been pursuing since the late 1980s.
After the atoms have been slowed sufficiently, they are moved into a region of "optical molasses." Here, six
crisscrossing laser beams create an environment that makes the sodium atoms behave as if they were suspended in a viscous fluid, in effect confining the sodium atoms for a time (SN: 6/21/86, p.388).
Among the objects and abstract forms they support are a yellow cabinet, a gray slab, a small rocklike blob, a
crisscrossing passel of blue stripes, and another gaudy urn--all of it capped by a New York School--style minimaelstrom of painterly brushstrokes.
Crisscrossing beams and wires parcel out a steely sky in these, his most accomplished paintings.
In the three reliefs, a series of
crisscrossing diagonal lines are routed into the smooth surface of painted wood panels; these are reminiscent of Lyubov Popova's "Spatial-Power Constructions," rectangular wooden panels with painted diagonals in similar arrangements.
With taut scarlet ribbons
crisscrossing the stage, Taymor diagrams the intersection of bloodlines during the incestuous wedding of Oedipus and his mother; the ribbons reappear streaming from his gouged eyes at the story's end.
based on a pixelated image from a Budweiser ad, Midtown - Panasonic Jumbotron (Times square Reflection) had a white diagonal grid
crisscrossing hundreds of gray, red, blue, green, yellow, and black triangles, all rendered in extra-thick coats of high-gloss house paint.
While not exactly melting-pot paeans, Pittman's insatiably synthetic, sexy panoramas accommodate myriad "pursuits"
crisscrossing at once the body and the body politic.