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Stenciled onto the adjacent wall next to an incongruously glowing sconce is eternity’s conundrum: “Heaven for weather, hell for company.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2022

Various forms of doubling also occur within each work: Stenciled writing appears in reverse, as if mirrored.

From Washington Post • Sep. 28, 2021

Stenciled onto the wall, barely visible in the dim glow of computer lights, is a quote from Richard P. Feynman, the Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist:

From Washington Post • May 23, 2019

Stenciled across the top of the whole picture, large black letters proclaim its title: advice to potential troublemakers.

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2012

Stenciled on the side was a stylish logo, a red circle around yellow letters: PT.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles