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Doctors put the boy on a ventilator and stuck a probe down his throat to suction out vinelike threads of mucus from his lungs.

He then created a three-dimensional print of the vinelike results and had it cast in bronze, joining ancient techniques with new ones in a curious and captivating object.

The aliens, communicating in vinelike spurts of smoke, remain an enigma in their half-egg-shaped spaceship, hanging eerily just above the ground.

All of the pieces are naturalistic, but some add an incongruous element with a vinelike aspect: a pair of headphones on a cord, a movable shower head on a flexible metallic hose.

Here, the orchards are planted with spindly, vinelike trees—spaced just a few feet apart—that rely on a trellis system for support.