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[@ottarsdatter]

Tires, those inviting doughnut shapes, lend themselves to the graceful and sensuous curves coaxed into them by Ms. Booker, but I think not willingly or easily. As an active mother in a long-ago playground building project, I have tried to cut tires up. And I want to know, Ms. Booker: how the hell did you get the tires to bend to *your* will instead of Goodyear's? So smooth, so obliging. But under that pliant rubberiness is a belt of steel.

[@user-xx2rr1gg4y]

Her Art is Amazing and Beautiful

[@Lazarusart]

Beautiful work on so many levels 🖤

[@whiteman2181]

There is a problem with the plasticity of the form and it is not very aesthetically pleasing.

[@deadsteve2180]

My brother was in the Hillsborough disaster. He watched his best friend and his little brother get crushed to death in front of him. I remember being taken to Anfield to see the eternal flame as a 10 year old. What the establishment did to Liverpool that day will never be forgiven.

[@thatoneguy6629]

fake

[@dkcorderoyximenez3382]

I can smell the old tires in my mind...

[@whiteman2181]

It's hard to call it a work of art, but as a student task of finding a form, it can be.