Sentences with phrase «as metaphors for»

Lauren Carter is a Chicago - based visual artist whose current studio practice incorporates anthropomorphized representational structures and objects as metaphors for the corporeal experience and notions of degeneration, nostalgia, and anxiety.

Winifred Lutz (b. 1942) employs natural and artificial materials, shape, and color in her sculptures and installations to mimic natural forms and to stand as metaphors for organic and spiritual growth.

The work, most of which is time - or sound - based, stand as metaphors for the regions themselves — monumental, breathtaking, fleeting — creating impressions of places that can only truly be experienced in person.

Simultaneously whimsical and sinister, Lerma's project re-imagines the layers of mythmaking in Ponce de León's tale and positions them as metaphors for deflating heroic painting.

Gender and identity were recurring themes in her art, as well as metaphors for life and death, trauma and exile.

Kusama, too, loves surfaces way too much to leave them as metaphors for the unconscious.

Texas - based artist Melissa Miller is widely known for her expressionistic paintings that use animals as metaphors for human dramas and dilemmas.

Gender, identity and the body were recurring themes in Mendieta's art, as well as metaphors for life and death, trauma and exile.

And its first recourse is a backward glance at tradition and Surrealism, as metaphors for devastation and rebuilding.

Don Voisine's process yields painted worlds that are lucid and dignified, accessible and at the same time reserved, firmly balancing ideas and emotions in equal measure and appearing before us as metaphors for the worlds we fabricate as well as models for our being in them.

The «literal approach» is, I'm assuming, seeing legs, heads / cages, robots in Garrulous Gallinule — or, more precisely, seeing different «tangles» of steel in GG as metaphors for legs, etc..

I use natural and endangered landscapes as metaphors for our fragile, yet beautiful, ever - changing existence.

His earlier works, produced in the 1980's, were signature Day - Glo, hard - edged paintings that acted as metaphors for the way in which social spaces have become delineated within the proliferating abstract nature of the technological world we now live in - as prisons or cells.

Many artists in Fresh Cuts feature botanical symbolism in their artwork, employing flowers as metaphors for culture and humanity.

These films take a subtle approach, burying their ideas in stories that often mix hallmarks of the horror genre with characters belonging to dysfunctional families that function as metaphors for the global mood.

This new film has all of the elements of his writing that I admire, including the seamless way he almost always uses physical journeys as metaphors for the spiritual journeys of his protagonists.

It's tempting to see these creatures as cartoon characters, caricatures of ourselves, done up as clowns or, more seriously, as metaphors for the human condition.

We may prefer to view images of life after death as metaphors for the transcendent dimension of human existence.

Just as the Jews in Biblical times achieved their dream of freedom and self - determination, many of the elements of the Exodus story serve as metaphors for how we can achieve our own dreams today.

You can also use the seasons as metaphors for life.

«Though made for children, this book has served me as a metaphor for business since I read it to my son 25 years ago.

We've all used the corporate buzz - phrase «Create a Path» as a metaphor for negotiation and building bridges.

Turning to the sandpile as the metaphor for markets, these innovations represent the «long fingers of instability».

Anderson coined the term «Long Tail» as a metaphor for the distribution graph of demand in the new economy.

The conventional image of the railway as a national project owes much to the appeal of Pierre Berton's books, which drew on its construction — with all the blood, sweat and scandal that went into it — as a metaphor for nation building, a physical extension of Confederation into western Canada.

In the March 2018 draft of their paper entitled «Pulling the Goalie: Hockey and Investment Implications», Clifford Asness and Aaron Brown ponder when a losing hockey coach should pull the goalie as a metaphor for focusing on portfolio - level return and portfolio - level risk management.

One is tempted to use laundry duty as a metaphor for the priestly task of cleansing the soiled soul, & c, & c.but it is at the same time more mundane and more exalted than that.

Hannah Arendt's work serves as a metaphor for all of that.

Otherwise we wouldn't enjoy the back & forth generated by David's vision of Zombies as metaphor for True Believers and their desire to Improve the Whirl.

I've only ever come across it as a metaphor for his death.

When I think of the book of Hosea, it helps me to think of his wife being with other men and then him taking her back as a metaphor for God with Israel and how Israel had gone after other gods.

4) Evolution as a metaphor for the ability of believers (both collectively and individually) to adapt to cultural change.

The mammalian brain's predisposition to and need for nurture can serve as a metaphor for understanding a nurturing God.

In the debate over abortion there has been much discussion surrounding «the seamless garment» as a metaphor for the so - called «life issues.»

«The whole spiritual world is an irrelevant kind of thing except as a metaphor for values.»

But in a way, the choice to depart from the novel and input an indefinite final image — one that signals ambiguity in the struggle between the profane and the sacred — serves as metaphor for Scorsese's own faith.

Pastors tend to invoke «wilderness» only as a metaphor for confusion or despair.

In In Search of Our Mothers» Gardens, Walker uses her mother's gardens as a metaphor for all that she has inherited from her mother, including artistic skill and a vision of harmony.

The act of swimming the length of a pool can be taken as a metaphor for human life.

Luke's special interest in journeys invites us to see his description of the Christian life as a metaphor for a phased journey which it is the ministry of the prophets to «strengthen» (Acts 15:32).

I will illustrate in a final chapter how this master role as a metaphor for integration can direct the energy of the pastoral leader in each of the professional roles.

Whitehead's refusal to accept imperial ruler as a metaphor for God found expression in Modes of Thought as well.

Actually, I think journalists more often use the term «handwriting on the wall» as a metaphor for its original meaning — a sign that the jig is almost up.

For this, let us begin with the postprojective as a metaphor for the preprojective.

I know he admired Spinoza and brandied the word «god» around as a metaphor for the numinous, but he certainly did not believe in the notions of life after death or a god that in any way worried itself with human beings.

While the apparent subject of Living by Fiction is thus modern fiction, Dillard seems more interested in the notion of fiction as a metaphor for culture and creativity.

It's the cross as a metaphor for an internal, psychological spiritual path.

Used as a metaphor for the connectivity of the world, this conception of body suggests that the world is a totally integrated physical whole, perhaps a machine.

In the aftermath of Vietnam and Watergate, and the collective guilt they both inspired, «the specter of «McCarthyism» was embraced as a metaphor for a guilty past to which America must never return.»

Sophisticated modern Christian writers, such as Søren Kierkegaard, Paul Tillich and Reinhold Niebuhr, defend its validity, interpreting original sin as a metaphor for our flawed and precarious human condition.