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Today the most recurring objects in his sculptures are croquet and billiard balls ("the world, and also the idea of Orpheus as an entertainer and juggler"), dolls ("man in his universe"), and ironing boards ("connotations of heat suggest hell"). Weather, rather than paint, creates his mellowed patinas, as well as the myriad uses to which each object has been put. But more than any natural beauty, it is his arrangement into harmonious compositions that give Boghosian's rescued miscellany a sad, precious sense of fatality.