Sentences with phrase «clockwork automata»

Intimate in scale — a theater for an audience of one — and made to solicit close looking, the work reflects her interests in early clockwork automata, the history of the mannequin and the puppet, and literature's host of legends in which the artificial figure comes to life.

Some of the stages that simply play themselves - aptly dubbed «Don't Move» courses - are breathtaking in their intricacy, like those clockwork automata that craftsmen used to make.