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For this series of works, the Los Angeles-based artist studied Google Earth to view the geometries of Washington, D.C., and used those to create a “feminized” version of the city’s landscape and monuments — for example, transforming the phallic obelisk of the Washington Monument into a vesica piscis — two intersecting discs that seem to channel female anatomy in clever, geometric ways.

Mandorla, man-dor′la, n. an oval panel, or a work of art filling such: the vesica piscis.

Within the vesica piscis, artists usually represent the virgin herself, with or without the child; in the figure before us the child takes her place.

A myrtle was also a type, but of the female, because its leaf is a close representation of the vesica piscis.

Figure 136 is the vesica piscis, or fish's bladder; the emblem of woman and of the virgin, as may be seen in the two following woodcuts.