deliquescent

But here in Cézanne’s watercolors of the cliffs of Provence — deliquescent landscapes, rocks turned into fluid — still lies a master class for artists working in a totally transformed climate, culturally and ecologically speaking.

Tumbledown stacks of painted wood and resin, or a huge sheet of punctured, deliquescent Styrofoam, suggest melting permafrost and worn rock formations; cast sheets of crumpled paper map changing Arctic surfaces.

The cloth feels taut, secure; the flesh beneath oily, blotchy, deliquescent.

The John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble’s CD release performance began with “Elf” — an extended composition based around “Isfahan,” the deliquescent Billy Strayhorn ballad — and ended on a bridling, crosshatched rendition of Kraftwerk’s “The Model.”

Mired in a fetid soup of excrement and deliquescent corpses, they “had become semi-aquatic mammals, a kind of large and vicious water rat, living in and above the drainage ditches of the marsh.”