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Beginning in the 1980s, L.A. artist Mike Kelley began developing a robust, often funny body of work based on metaphors of a human body’s alimentary canal — the path from the esophagus through the intestines where food goes in one end, nutrients get extracted and waste comes out the other end.
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Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2022
The gastrointestinal tract, commonly referred to as the gut, consists of a series of hollow organs that allow food to travel from the mouth to the alimentary canal.
—William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
Technically speaking, the human body is a donut, and the alimentary canal—leading from our mouths all the way down to our anuses —is the hole in the center.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 7 Apr. 2022
These then get snared in their alimentary canals, cannot be broken down by the animals’ digestive enzymes and may ultimately kill them.
—The Economist, 12 Mar. 2020
The webbed contraption looks something like an unraveled alimentary canal — esophagus, stomach and intestines.
—Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2019
One way this happens is that the seeds of many species are just the right size and shape to endure passage through the alimentary canals of the animals that swallow them.
—The Economist, 26 Sep. 2019
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Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2022
The gastrointestinal tract, commonly referred to as the gut, consists of a series of hollow organs that allow food to travel from the mouth to the alimentary canal.
—William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
Technically speaking, the human body is a donut, and the alimentary canal—leading from our mouths all the way down to our anuses —is the hole in the center.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 7 Apr. 2022
These then get snared in their alimentary canals, cannot be broken down by the animals’ digestive enzymes and may ultimately kill them.
—The Economist, 12 Mar. 2020
The webbed contraption looks something like an unraveled alimentary canal — esophagus, stomach and intestines.
—Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2019
One way this happens is that the seeds of many species are just the right size and shape to endure passage through the alimentary canals of the animals that swallow them.
—The Economist, 26 Sep. 2019
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“Alimentary canal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/alimentary%20canal. Accessed 26 Dec. 2024.
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