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The zigzag is one of Art Deco's most persistent motifs — a decorative gesture that appeared across the movement's international variants, borrowed from pre-Columbian architecture, Egyptian ornament, and the machine age aesthetic that ran through all of them. In Miami Beach it shows up in wrought iron gates, tile borders, decorative bands, and, as here, in the undersides of cornices — the triangular projections and recesses creating a sawtooth pattern that only reveals itself when the sun hits from the right angle. Shot at the corner of a white building against deep Florida blue, the composition is as reduced as the series gets: no color, no pastels, no palm trees. Just the ornament, the white stucco, and the sky. The impulse to take the geometry of antiquity and see what the twentieth century could do with it, in the Florida sun.
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