Sentences with phrase «as ephemeral moments»

Taking as their subject matter commonplace objects such as paper bags, erasers, apple cores, and waiting rooms as well as ephemeral moments, such as afternoon naps, the featured artists create works that are startlingly realistic and frequently playful and surreal.

Not exact matches

In fact, a life without them but with, say, Tinker Toys and the Pickwick Papers might have just as many «light and ephemeral» moments as those provided to us by the entertainment complex.

Its bloody expensive and does not deliver as promised (re; AW WSJ etc) amounting to nothing more than an overpriced partial lease only like with Time Shares you don't have anything in your possession for daily use when you want it and in the end you're out every dime you've put in with nothing to show for it other than a few moments of ephemeral pleasures and the temporal boosting of your fragile consumption dependent ego.

Three new collections offer moments of insight and escape, only to zip away, as ephemeral as life itself.

As a scholar, I'm always fascinated by marginalia and have, in fact, researched and written about the marginalia of Herman Melville, Ezra Pound and so on, because I believe those ephemeral words jotted down on the spur of the moment are the most revelatory.

Pokhara is a beautiful, quiet, lakeside town in Nepal, where — if you are adventurous — you can try to live the hippie life as in the past, even if for few ephemeral moments.

The Puerto Rico - based artists have studied the ephemeral nature of collective drawing with monumental sticks of chalk at the Biennial de Lima, Peru (Chalk [Lima], 1998 — 2002); the imprints of colonial, nationalist, and military violence on the diverse populations and landscapes of Vieques, Puerto Rico (Land Mark (Foot Prints), 2001 — 2002; Land Mark, 2003; Returning a Sound, 2004; Under Discussion, 2006 and Half Mast / Full Mast, 2011); and the resonance of playing, warping and combining music from various moments in history (Clamor, 2006; Wake Up, 2007; Sediments Sentiments - Figures of Speech, 2008; Stop, Repair, Prepare: Variations on Ode to Joy for a Prepared Piano, 2008; Raptor's Rapture, 2012; Apotomē, 2013; 3, 2013); as well as the entanglement between biophysics, semiotics and actuality (Growth, 2004; Puerto Rican Light - Cueva Vientos, 2015).

In his essay to accompany the exhibition, Ragnar Helgi Ólafsson writes: «Ragnar Kjartansson seems perpetually drawn to this type of hopeless romanticism as well as to the continuous search for the unique ephemeral moment of the kind that Paoli's song tries to arrest.

Many of the artists in the exhibition use photography as a means to document ephemeral moments.

By literally as well as figuratively capturing a person's breath, the artist creates a living memorial to that ephemeral moment of breathing.

Frequently these artists work from photographs, but just as often, their inspiration is the observed world, and the notion that a tangible, perhaps ephemeral object or moment can somehow be brought back to life - reinterpreted through the artist's hand as re-made readymades.

And come to think of it, I wonder why his criticism of me «burying» myself in a guidebook didn't apply to himself burying himself in the ephemeral internet as opposed to whatever experience he was going through at that moment.

A series of dramaturgic texts invite viewers to consider these maquettes as scenarios where they become director and enactor of ephemeral cultural moments.

The ephemeral moment of these installations are gone as fast as they are made which is the nature of public art.

As the veil dissolves, the spectator is ensnared in an ephemeral moment, the light pulsating within the canvas.

Ham writes, «The videos reflect an ephemeral value of the moment when life and death are observed as a single process... in capturing my mother's presence in the work I was able to embrace my grief.»

«Pièce» may refer as much to the piece of music that exists on the partition as to the music the moment it's played, abstract and ephemeral once it comes to life through sound.