Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Richard Tipping - Everlasting Stone #12 - Like This Like You


Like This Like You, 1977
Granite, engraved text, goldleaf. Dimesions say W 28 x H 30 x D 24 cm.
Collection of the estate of Mazie Turner. Proposed acquisition by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 2016. Photograph by Mazie Turner, 1980.

Like as a conjoiner, comparing, equivalence, affection.  The word like in poetry is the essential tool of simile. Like can be a preposition, a conjunction, a noun, an adjective and an adverb.

A Google search for "like - meaning" shows the variety of these uses.


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