inanimate
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Inanimate objects carry within them a mystical force that can awaken these lost feelings of grief, joy and love.
From Salon • Dec. 4, 2022
The piece is one of several in the Upstate New York artist’s Adah Rose Gallery show, “The Anatomy of an Inanimate Object,” that use a new but characteristically humble material: junk mail.
From Washington Post • Oct. 20, 2021
Inanimate sources have profiles with no discernible features.
From Scientific American • Oct. 4, 2021
Here’s how our pilgrims of love progressed this week: Best Supporting Role by an Inanimate Object: Sometimes a bridge is just a bridge.
From Time • Jan. 17, 2012
Inanimate Objects do gather into themselves something of the character of those who live among them, through association; and this alone makes heirlooms valuable.
From A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA) by Larcom, Lucy
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