The first artist visitors encounter upon entering The Mysterious Content of Softness, a group show currently filling three of four galleries at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum, is Nathan Vincent. According to the accompanying wall text, Vincent's work "explores gender permissions" by "creating 'masculine objects' using 'feminine processes.'" To the right of that text, you'll see three traditional ivory lace doilies, into which Vincent has worked male motifs such as a men's room symbol and the circle-and-arrow Mars emblem; turn around and there's a pair of huge screws and a bolt crocheted in gray yarn.

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