Sentences with phrase «as alchemical»

Engaging the history of painting and the possibility of art - making as an alchemical process, Saban continues her investigation of the line between painting and sculpture.
Many artists interested in depth psychology, visionary experiences, and practices such as alchemical active imagination have been marginalized and shut out of the current politicizing discourse.
Looking to Brazilian folklore and Baroque religious imagery, as well as Alchemical and Pagan symbols, Stephan has created his own unique language and style which embraces his influences and lets them evolve naturally into his own autobiographical work by combining them with his roots in urban art and Pop culture.
In this sense they are a continuum of Felver's quest to expand the portrait as an alchemical image of consciousness.
The material out of which my work is composed acts as an alchemical conduit between the garment and the clothesline; it acknowledges the latter as a symbol of the ancestry and familiar bonds which have greatly informed my work.

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Using our laptops and a wifi connection as our only materials, this class will focus on the alchemical recuperation of aimless surfing into substantial works of literature.
He referred to it as the «central salt» and built his alchemical theories around it.
As Newman read old alchemical texts, he discovered that by the late 15th and early 16th centuries (the time of da Vinci and the beginning of the Renaissance), alchemists had refined not just mercury but also their core ideas about matter.
Principe, who had studied the alchemical work of all three men, came to the same conclusion as Newman and decided that he, too, had to replicate the long - abandoned alchemical experiments firsthand.
I love infusing everything with superfoods as you know, and the versatility of easy dessert recipes that can turn into more alchemical creations with the layers you add makes it an excellent default recipe.
The Inner Alchemy Youthening Program by Ronnie Landis is a brilliantly written alchemical synthesis of ancient dietary wisdom in which eating habits are seen as a most important part of supporting spiritual development.
We explore specific yoga postures that activate the vital properties of the five alchemical elements (wood, fire, earth, metal, and water) and invoke the spiritual essence of various creatures, thus enlivening the body and consciousness with these distinct energetic qualities, such as lightness, fluidity, strength, springiness, and calm.
Yin yoga is based upon the alchemical elements of Earth, Metal, Wood, Water, and Fire that each express distinct qualities in the body and emotions, such as lightness, fluidity, strength, springiness, and calm.
As I mentioned, Alchemical Seas of Hope is a polish in a charity box called the Lighthouse of Hope.
When, in fact, we need to nourish ourselves to be as complete as possible, so that the alchemical addition of the magical other serves to further embellish us, but not complete us.
I use the word «melt» advisedly — the film's images literally look as if they're burning in the crucible of some kind of alchemical reaction.
As has become accustomed in the industry, those who pre-order Atelier Lydie & Suelle: The Alchemists and the Mysterious Paintings from select retailers or online via Steam will get various DLC bonuses, including: costumes inspired from legacy alchemists Marie and Erie, an item set full of useful alchemical ingredients, and battle - themed music.
As mentioned, it's the alchemical undertaking itself that can often be the most engrossing aspect of the game, and though I stumbled a bit early on, crafting soon became my favorite part of the Atelier heraldry.
The exhibition is focused on the act of bringing something into being; here «realization» is taken as equal parts practical (doing, constructing) and alchemical (magical, transformative).
The collision of material preservation and more internalized alchemical detail exposes Reus» relationship to object making as one which communicates the universal meanings embedded within all materials, but also the transformative strategies we use to mobilize the everyday.
Calzolari's glacial frozen structures developed a light frost over their surfaces as time passed, as the material went through a process of alchemical transformation.
She has spoken of her fantasy that her artworks, «assembled from non-art objects», might one day «return to a state of non-art».6 Pavel S Pyś, exhibitions and display curator at the Henry Moore Institute, describes this alternation lyrically as an «alchemical variation».7
The exhibition also includes a projection displaying the items on sale once again at Ebay, in order to emphasize the constraint of the project as well as the origins of these objects subjected to «alchemical» transformation by the artists.
Anicka Yi, employing bacteria and manufactured smells as materials, brought her alchemical meditations on memory to Kunsthalle Basel, while Rachel Rose's kaleidoscopic videos made waves at the Whitney.
The shapes of Talk to the Eye act as a collection alchemical symbols or a three dimensional alphabet, communicating his visions through characters that, like the organisms encountered in Hayden's childhood, appear both earthen and otherworldly.
The Stella or star, as well as cosmic and alchemical motifs have been a recurring subject of his experimental practice, often relying on symbols and metaphorical language.
The Photoshop levels accumulate, as do the literary, philosophical, artistic and alchemical references.
Besides the paint, she also uses: asphalt, plaster weld, and copper plating as catalysts with the pieces taking on a richer dimension from the alchemical reaction that ensues.
Andrew Russel Coate's photograms map the pulsing lights of fireflies bouncing inside of mason jars, to record the alchemical and accidental as well as a lyrical abstraction of summer nights.»
The patterning that composes each image is sourced from both Eastern and Western aesthetic traditions: Paleolithic and Neo-Paleolithic fetish objects, West African ceremonial masks, Greek Icon painting, Italian and Northern Renaissance altarpieces, Jewish ceremonial textiles such as Tallit and Torah arks, Islamic prayer rugs, alchemical diagrams and geometric references to mathematical equations.
Drawing on ancestral knowledge in conversation with Huitoto and Tikuna women, indigenous communities native to the Amazon, eleven botanical species were identified along with the alchemical processes for the use of their pigments on natural fibers such as fique, cotton, and paper.
Often created for use in a specific location or inspired by a particular historical account, the work's meticulous craftsmanship lends it authority as a functional object, but upon inspection may seem quite absurd, fetishistic, alchemical, or otherwise baffling.
His modus operandi was characterised by the alchemical process of transforming elements and the investigation of materials such as tobacco, musk, lead, luminous materials and frozen bars (Lago del cuore, Piombo rosa).
Kiefer's fascination for eidetic process, rather than teleological outcome is underscored by the alchemical effects he achieves in these new works — aleatory, and as luminescent as the natural forms they evoke.
There is no title of the event in written words but as an interpretation of the alchemical symbol of lunar caustic, a substance that most of us know as silver nitrate.
The exhibition reflects Kiefer's preoccupation with alchemy; in particular, alchemical processes being bound up with a «hastening of time» and the idea of accelerated transformation as a form of magic.
There is something alchemical or magical about it: The bricks and mullions and windows of our buildings become files of digital data, the pixels become black spheres meticulously cut, stacked and assembled, the courtyard becomes and contains sculpture — and all the while Federico remains behind the curtain, as if to say «look ma, no hands.»
Alicja Kwade is an artifex of cosmic memory, an alchemical artist who rather than changing lead into gold keeps asking fundamental questions about our origin, our place in the universe, our future, and deconstructing what we think of as our most familiar reality, uncovering mysterious, previously unknown details, measure by measure.
This exhibition, entitled ☽ ⦶, takes its name from an interpretation of the alchemical symbol for lunar caustic a material more commonly known as silver nitrate.
These alchemical qualities of the glass reflect the movement of the viewer like recently frozen pools of liquid formed into lozenges, as the work vibrates between states of being.
NC SCHOOL OF SCIENCE & MATH, DURHAM — Four tape drawing installations mapping alchemical properties as origami patterns.
The artist had a pseudo alchemical bent — that was more of a Beuysian parody than any serious stance as shaman; in fact Polke's position was to even question the artist's authority itself.
Latte responds with further demands for satisfaction, which as you note, he ain't getting, however hard he tries (and he tries)(and he tries) and airs the oft repeated demand for «empirical» evidence, presumably as opposed to other forms of this alchemical substance.
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