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views of The Bars (or: How I learn to stop worrying and love the rod), Ongoing; brass (alloy 360), multimedia

 

 

Keys
Each Bar is:
Currency      Contact      Weapon      Index       Indexing       History       Erasure       Readymade       Ritual       the-7-days       Attempt at breaking       Shine: seduction, preciousness, extraction       Locally sourced       Building material       Mineral       Myth


Process
a    Purchase
b    Erasure of history (Polishing)
c    History
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    \    } Events; Potential for a dialogue between hit and caress.
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d    The Night; jetting; collection, caress, smearing; drying. Contact
e    Engraving
f    Sealing (Posture) (End)


Name

bar, noun:
1.
a long rod or rigid piece of wood, metal, or similar material, typically used as an obstruction, fastening, or weapon. "an iron bar”; an amount of food or another substance formed into a regular narrow block. "a bar of chocolate”; a band of color or light, especially on a flat surface. "bars of sunlight shafting through the broken windows”; a sandbank or shoal at the mouth of a harbor, bay, or estuary.
2.
a counter across which refreshments are served. "standing at the bar”
3.
a barrier or restriction to an action or advance. "political differences are not necessarily a bar to a good relationship”
4.
a measure of music or the time of a piece of music. "the opening bars of the first hymn”
5.
a partition in a courtroom or legislative assembly, now usually notional, beyond which most people may not pass and, in court, at which an accused person stands. "the prisoner at the bar”
6.
the legal profession.
verb:
1.
fasten (something, especially a door or window) with a bar or bars. "she bolts and bars the door”
2.
prevent or prohibit (someone) from doing something or from going somewhere. "she is barred from leaving the country”
3.
mark (something) with bars or stripes. "his face was barred with light”

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