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Main Entry: phys·i·cal·i·ty

Pronunciation: \fi-zi-ka-li-ti\

Function: noun

Inflected Form(s): plural phys·i·cal·i·ties

Date: 1660

1 : intensely physical orientation : predominance of the physical usually at the expense of the mental, spiritual, or social 2 : a physical aspect or quality

"physicality." Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. 2008.

Merriam-Webster Online. 14 November 2008
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/physicality

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"I had this old etching plate in the studio for a long time. Every time I saw it I felt uncomfortable because it was empty and dull. I always intended to mark it and finally I couldn't bear it any longer and attached it to the bed of a Start Rite panel saw so that the operator marked it with the wood as he worked. I am not sure, but I think it has something to do with art and its perpetual referencing back to itself."  Denise Hawrysio

 “Denise Hawrysio has worked in many media over the past twenty-five years, including film, video and installation. Throughout that period she has also pursued the conceptual possibilities of printmaking, especially in relation to her notion of site-specificity. Hawrysio produces her prints by employing external agents, both human and physical (such as cars driving over etching plates). The prints are a collaboration between the artist and the world as she finds it; the actions and motions of Hawrysio's surroundings leave their mark on her art, with the result that each print is a still, a frozen interface between the materials of art and the physicality of the world.

Excerpts from: www.sfu.ca/artgallery/0704hawrysio.html