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Using a computer has changed the work in two important ways: it is smoother, physically lacking the materiality of the handhewn pieces; and imagery has changed.
Cherie Louise Turner: San Francisco Galleries: Collages of Calculated Chaos Cherie Louise Turner 2011
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Using a computer has changed the work in two important ways: it is smoother, physically lacking the materiality of the handhewn pieces; and imagery has changed.
Cherie Louise Turner: San Francisco Galleries: Collages of Calculated Chaos Cherie Louise Turner 2011
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Inside, the place was lined with handhewn logs, a fire was crackling in the big fireplace, and, except for a man who turned out to be the owner, “not another human in view.”
Here We Go Again Betty White 1995
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Royan spread her drawings and photographs and reference books on the rough table of handhewn planks that Hansith made for her.
The Seventh Scroll Smith, Wilbur 1995
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Inside, she discovered the remains of a large garden, a patio with a well, a dilapidated house with a collapsing viga roof, dangling handhewn wooden doors, and adobe walls that were crumbling back to dust.
Portrait of An Artist Laurie Lisle 1986
mollusque commented on the word handhewn
There's a bunch of old handhewn log cabins that's been falling down ever since I recall . . .
--Raymond Chandler, 1943, The Lady in the Lake, chapter 11
September 4, 2009