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To turn shovel designs into fanciful images, artist digs deep

A detail from ''Die for Grass Slicer'' by Heather Hobler. A detail from ''Die for Grass Slicer'' by Heather Hobler.
By Cate McQuaid
Globe Correspondent / August 6, 2008

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EASTON - An 8-foot shovel known as a telegraph spoon, used to install telephone and telegraph poles, hangs from the ceiling at Cushing-Martin Gallery at Stonehill College. The blade scoops down delicately, as if to pat you on the head. Is it part of some whimsical art installation, meant to have deeper meaning? Or is it just a shovel? (Full article: 825 words)

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