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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.

I may, however, mention some very remarkable sculptures copied; one is a tree, whose trunk is surrounded by a serpent, and whose fruit is shaped like the vesica piscis; in another is seen a youth wholly unclothed, save by a cap and gaiters, who kneels before a similar tree, being threatened before and behind by some fierce animal.

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

The living group, moreover, are placed in an archway, delta, or door, which is symbolic of the female, like the vesica piscis, the oval or the circle.