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stony
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His somber and nocturnal interiors are striking in their density: a young girl seen from behind, sitting on a concrete bench, pulled from the black ink of night by the yellow light of street lamps; a family on a walk by the sea in the grayness and stoniness of falling night; a lunch scene, shot against the light, in which bodies and space melt together, saturating the image whose depth the viewer must now probe.
Their very stoniness is brought out by the pronounced chisel marks on their surfaces, by the rock-like shapes of their heads (which resemble the stones being hurled by the Lapiths) and by the manner in which they are still one with the stone from which they emerge [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 4 OMITTED].
Like Uncle's bread, her stoniness is also contradictory.
 
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