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Motifs of branches, foliage, bark, roots, moss and wispy lichens serve to define trees in the same way that mountains are a mighty accumulation of rocks and boulders.
Shan-shui 2009
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Motifs allude to the mystical and spiritual, as well as the natural world, and compositions are enigmatic.
Bill Bush: The Rise of the Los Angeles Art Scene: This Artweek.LA (January 30, 2012) Bill Bush 2012
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Motifs allude to the mystical and spiritual, as well as the natural world, and compositions are enigmatic.
Bill Bush: The Rise of the Los Angeles Art Scene: This Artweek.LA (January 30, 2012) Bill Bush 2012
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Motifs of branches, foliage, bark, roots, moss and wispy lichens serve to define trees in the same way that mountains are a mighty accumulation of rocks and boulders.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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Baroque Motifs Stamp Set (I hadn't used it in a while)
Archive 2009-01-01 jpitta 2009
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Baroque Motifs Stamp Set (I hadn't used it in a while)
A little challenge jpitta 2009
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"Imitatio Mariae: Motherhood Motifs in Devotional Memoirs," Mystics Quarterly 16 (1990): 193 – 203.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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Motifs recur throughout the piece, as if each round is casting the players different hands from the same deck.
Emanuel Gat Dance – review Sanjoy Roy 2010
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"Motifs, images, and concepts" are the means to an end, interlocking parts to a puzzle that is finally assembled in its entirety, only to then be disregarded except insofar as it gives us a finished picture -- mystery resolved.
Canonical Writers 2008
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Motifs from his work -- a blue rose, a map of the United States shaped like the green leaves of a tree with the root system shaped like a map of the world -- get picked up and incorporated into the work of others, or pasted on the Washington streetscape.
Cesar Maxit, Graham Boyle, other artists inspired by community activism 2010
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