Sentences with phrase «become metaphors for»

Her layered and distressed works retain a sort of palimpsestic record of preexisting stages, and become metaphors for the phenomena of recollection.

He is interested in experimenting with expectations, relativity, and assumptions of what is fixed versus in flux; these themes become metaphors for imagination, memory, nostalgia, and obsession.

His material and process - oriented practice yields sculptures that become metaphors for the metaphysical themes organizing our spiritual universe.

My recent paintings and sculptures focus on the African - American experience of navigating public spaces while remaining buoyant within them... Working beyond the physical image of the body, objects of buoyancy, and navigation become metaphors for selfhood, resilience, and the sanity required in the turbulent oceans of contemporary America.»

Her practice examines the mechanisms within exhibitions, institutions, and visual modes of art distribution that become metaphors for the construction of individual identity.

Beyond the physical image of the body, objects become metaphors for self - hood and resilience.

Such banal items become metaphors for the inevitability of age and decay, but tempered with humor, hope and humanity.

The character, Herbie, becomes a metaphor for how to identify constraints and define processes based on these constraints.»

In turning men away from the mythological concepts of the gods to the YHWH who was known through His Word, Israel seized upon the most important phenomenon in the human scene — language — to become the metaphor for faith «The Word became flesh.»

[15] Labour's «Clause Four Moment» has subsequently become a metaphor for any need or perceived need for a fundamental recasting of a political party's principles or attitudes.

«It became a metaphor for impossibility in the state, that somehow along the way we lost our ability to take on big projects and get big things done.»

For me, entertaining has become a metaphor for life.

If the Darwins» «rough patch» becomes a metaphor for the science - religion debate that his book accelerates, the movie has remarkably little to say about it.

Each one must face the issues in their lives and the swim class becomes a metaphor for the progress that each one makes on their personal journey.

This, of course, becomes a metaphor for Alexander leading his troops out of Macedonia to conquer, then unify the Persian Empire... or something.

In this film, the animal - human relationship becomes a metaphor for facing the daily challenges of life.

And this in turn, becomes a metaphor for Andy Kaufman who, as the film reiterates, purposefully blurred any distinction between his work and life.

But the allotment and its currency in the film becomes a metaphor for nurturing, and in that sense for the cyclical nature of life, obviously.

Through Wong's oeuvre, Hong Kong becomes a metaphor for the characters and their varied existence.

Honestly, the logline for the film, «The fight for survival,» became a metaphor for our experience making the movie.

In the opposite direction, Fabian Suarez's Caballos offers an intimate look at the intellectual elite of a different Havana, shot in black and white, in which the titular horses become metaphor for the powerful, fragile or prosaic nature of its inhabitants.

Notable for the revitalization of the teen slasher film and the genesis of the found footage craze, the «90s horror films became a metaphor for the psychological and physical terrors that we inflict on our fellow humans (especially the vulnerable ones).

The movie has a fierce new significance in the era of #TimesUp: «gaslighting» has become a metaphor for male attempts to undermine women's experience and testimony.

But this one specifically became a metaphor for the prison - industrial complex, the lack of representation of black people in film, in genre.

Savoca's knack for capturing nuances of women's everyday life is brilliantly displayed as talk - show television becomes a metaphor for the hectic life of parent and professional and an indicted source of the barriers between motherhood and masculinity which make career moms neurotic messes.

«Cargo» becomes a metaphor for the world we're leaving behind for our kids as much as a horror movie.

But the approaching Melancholia quickly becomes a metaphor for the emotional malaise of two sisters, played by Kirsten Dunst, in the finest performance of her career (she won Best Actress at Cannes), and Charlotte Gainsbourg.

In curriculum discussions, the term Friday Night Lights has become a metaphor for events through which students make their work public — publishing writing and other products for an authentic audience to view.

When Brent inadvertently causes the death of another teenager, he is sent on a journey of repentance in which the whirligigs he is building become a metaphor for movement, laughter, and, ultimately, life.

Kites became a metaphor for Li's life, as his career soared beyond the impoverished commune of his childhood to the ballet stages of the world.

So for us, the Journey in the game has also become a metaphor for the development process of the game itself.»

Juxtaposing images of the First World War memorial in the churchyard with the cranes and girders of contemporary urban development, Emin's personal heartache now becomes a metaphor for the lives fractured by the conflict, the passage of time and for the loss and eradication — as well as survival and perpetuation — of history and memory within the built environment.

Each gesture expands the possibility of what it can be; the portal becomes a metaphor for the possible.

His drawing becomes a metaphor for the African - American experience as well as the high - art milieu in which it circulates.

The opening becomes a metaphor for what lies beyond our existence.

[3] Collage became a metaphor for this idea and a means to achieve it.

«For me, the literal, physical distance from the source of the communicative attempt to the potential receiver is also the metaphorical distance,» notes Pica.2 Distance becomes a metaphor for art making as well as a guide for the artist when organizing works in a space.

The accumulation of stroke after stroke of paint stick becomes a metaphor for artistic and manual labor and visually mediates between what is visible and invisible.

The bandage, an instrument of healing, thus becomes a metaphor for the fragility of life, underlining a need for transcendence below the body's empty shell.

For us, these characters are familiar, but grow and evolve in each show and have so imbued themselves in Fish's own persona that each one becomes a metaphor for personal exploration.

As the image of the two birds continuously slips in and out of our grasp, our viewing experience becomes a metaphor for memory itself.

In each of these works, the human body struggling to find a mode of expression becomes a metaphor for living under censorship and political repression.

For Emin, her union with the stone — an immovable and solid form — becomes a metaphor for stability and enduring love.

The paintings in Sticky Pictures present elusive spaces in which images are eaten, torn, smeared, or pinned, becoming metaphors for our own sticky relationship to images, as sites of fascination and contempt, of ambivalence and fantastic projection.

Her larger interest is in the questions that are raised when the process of making art becomes a metaphor for something greater.

The game of chess thus becomes a metaphor for a studio - based art practice that revolves around the ego of the artist and gives structure to the unsurpassable chaos of the «outside» world, which consists of an abundance of images.

Melikhaya Mdungwana and Tom Vidal assist her to process this paint for use in her art making.As Parton works with it, the paint becomes a metaphor for how land speaks of our interaction with it.

The process of making remains visible and becomes a metaphor for the individual and collective struggle to establish democracy.

Norwood Viviano's glass and metal works use cutting - edge technology and historical data to explore population shifts; the fragility of his medium becomes a metaphor for the delicate equilibrium of communities, industry, and environment.

Reed's art becomes a metaphor for change and growth while artistically celebrating the rich heritage of a people whose language and myths have been stripped away over time.