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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
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May I ask a favor to help me to learn the English word
Autoxylopyrocycloboros which is the title of an artwork by Simon Starling, but I can not find out what it means.
Your earliest kind help will be appreciated very much
Your earliest kind help will be appreciated very much
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It is a coined term based on classic roots and affixes: auto- = self- xylo- = wood pyro- = fire cyclo- = cyclic, circular boros = (I don't know. Boat? Art?
- It is a coined term based on classic roots and affixes: auto- = self- xylo- = wood pyro- = fire cyclo- = cyclic, circular boros = (I don't know.
- Boat?
- Art?
- ) As you know, the 'artwork' was actually an event: a small wooden steam powered boat is steadily sawn up and fed into the boiler which powers the boat on its cyclical journey upon Loch Long.
- Through a process of auto-destruction, the boat sinks and is returned to the bottom of Loch Long.
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It is a coined term based on classic roots and affixes:
auto- = self-
xylo- = wood
pyro- = fire
cyclo- = cyclic, circular
boros = (I don't know. Boat? Art? Destruction?)
As you know, the 'artwork' was actually an event: a small wooden steam powered boat is steadily sawn up and fed into the boiler which powers the boat on its cyclical journey upon Loch Long. Thro
auto- = self-
xylo- = wood
pyro- = fire
cyclo- = cyclic, circular
boros = (I don't know. Boat? Art? Destruction?)
As you know, the 'artwork' was actually an event: a small wooden steam powered boat is steadily sawn up and fed into the boiler which powers the boat on its cyclical journey upon Loch Long. Thro
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