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A photographer by training, he works in odd materials: chocolate syrup, sugar, plastic toys, the dots from hole-punchers, junk, dust, and detritis from a Brazilian street after Carnivale - nearly always sticking to one material for each series.
Archive 2007-09-01 Heather McDougal 2007
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A photographer by training, he works in odd materials: chocolate syrup, sugar, plastic toys, the dots from hole-punchers, junk, dust, and detritis from a Brazilian street after Carnivale - nearly always sticking to one material for each series.
Vik Muniz: Thinking Artist Heather McDougal 2007
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It's very comforting to keep everything the same, but eventually stuff becomes detritis and circumstances become shackles.
Archive 2010-04-01 Carrie 2010
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It's very comforting to keep everything the same, but eventually stuff becomes detritis and circumstances become shackles.
Surrounded by Spring Cleaning Carrie 2010
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Lotic species will often construct protective cases out of detritis and sand particles.
Insecta (Aquatic) 2008
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Mangrove Ecosystem Studies in Latin America and Africa: Annual variation of particulate organic carbon and degradation of mangrove detritis in Agua Brava Lagoon, Nayarit, Mexico.
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I love the picture of Libby "at her ease", surrounded by the inevitable detritis of puppy ownership!
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I have half the notion to just start loading trash sacks with the detritis that clutters my shelves and horizontal surfaces.
madrigle Diary Entry madrigle 2003
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They built a fire in one of the holes, into which went all the C-rations detritis: loose paper and plastic and cardboard and stamped-flat cans.
1968 Haldeman, Joe & Fields, Trinity 1984
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But their tents and other detritis were gone, stored away in a sanitation garage.
NYDN Rss BARBARA ROSS 2011
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