Sentences with phrase «create metaphors for»

I have continued to use PEZ candies and wrappers to create metaphors for my life - changing experience of immigrating to a foreign land.»

He carved out sections of buildings with a power saw in order to reveal their hidden construction, to provide new ways of perceiving space, and to create metaphors for the human condition.

He sewed together scraps of burlap, metal, and wood to create metaphors for torn and bleeding flesh.

The exhibition highlights the ways in which Thomas experiments with the construction of intimate interior spaces to create a metaphor for the status of the female body — itself either present or absent — as it has been interpreted and used throughout the history of art.

By blurring and obscuring the subjects, Neshat creates a metaphor for the mystifications that enforce cultural boundaries and also questions socially constructed differences.

Using handmade tools, sandpaper and even rags to drag across the canvas, Petrov specifically wants to create a metaphor for each stroke.

The works featured in this exhibition highlight the ways Thomas experiments with the construction of intimate interior spaces, to create a metaphor for the status of the female body — itself either present or absent — as it has been interpreted and used throughout the history of art.

Not exact matches

Since my keynote program had been about creating a Menu for Your Life, with many metaphors around cooking, I started thinking about what her sales management recipe should be.

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

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We're created for metaphor, that one thing points to another.

I consider that men DID create and write the bible, but both Christ and satan are metaphors... christ is the metaphor for the potential good in a person, satan the metaphor for the potential of bad or evil... given that this is MY definition, and makes much more sense that most other beleifs, then the bible WAS written by satan, or rather it was inspired by the bad / evil side of the minds of the writers.

To use a different metaphor, life for me is a two - step saraband of creating and letting be, of making and simply enjoying, of molding and then being molded, of work and play, prayer and politics, telling and listening.

Already in 1927, moreover, Barfield hailed the backward glance of poetry, for it is by creating true metaphors that poetry restores (Barfield's italics) the primordial unity of subject and object.

Soil is a metaphor for people's lives and for the culture people create, which in turn shapes them and the world.

Christian poetry is practically nonexistent in our time, but good poets of whatever religious persuasion are a source for learning the way metaphor works to create insight.

They are our signposts which help us to read our way and for which the poet must provide new contexts, create new metaphors, in order that they may be read at all.

Soil is a metaphor for people's lives (we were made of the «dust of the earth») and for the culture people create in their respective environments, which in turn shapes them and the world.

In creating a metaphor in this way you either map onto politics a «nurturant» view of how one ought to behave or you go for something «stern».

But because Jebel Barkal is a lone mountain, isolated from other buttes in the area and sometimes nearly engulfed by the Nile's floodwaters, the priests may also have seen it as the perfect metaphor for the primeval mound: the island where Amun pulled himself out of the waters of the Abyss and created the first gods by masturbating.

YossarianLives aims to create new metaphors for designers, artists, writers or even scientists.

Karen Salmansohn is best selling author and designer with over 1 million books sold — known for creating «self help for people who would never be caught dead doing self help» - because her stuff incorporates psychological research with feisty humor, unusual metaphors and stylish graphics.

When I create blends for emotional upset, I prefer to use the flowers (something about the metaphor of the flower opening and turning to the sun) and save the berries for physical disruptions.

And so the idea of a man creating an artificial female becomes a natural metaphor for objectification; if Ava is capable of feelings, or manipulating feelings, surely, the men assume, it is because they programmed her to do so.

In one scene, director Lelio creates a visual metaphor for Marina's situation and character, in which she walking into the face of a rising wind, as the landscape around her deteriorates.

At first an interesting metaphor for bigotry, the show has gradually moved further away from any significant resonance beyond escapism as it layered on werewolves, shape - shifters, faeries and witches, creating a teeming roster of «supernaturals» in its small - town environs.

Seeing, saying, and experiencing meaningful and personal reminders can effectively create associations and metaphors that the brain desires and needs for personalizing new responses.

For example, students can create a graphic organizer, such as a Venn Diagram, that shows the similarities and differences of similes and metaphors to deepen their understanding of the definition of these two terms.

My kitchen painting experience is a metaphor for how not to create and use common assessments.

In The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson uses fog to create an atmosphere of mystery and as a metaphor for the blurring of identities that occurs in the novel.

When ROM «cooks» (ROM terminology often uses a kitchen metaphor, with cooking being a common name for the process of building a custom ROM) create a ROM, the first thing they leave out is the space - consuming trial software.

Maybe you're the cover designer who creates a visual metaphor for the story.

Utilizing a real - life environment, a fantastic jungle gym in the trees, creates a remarkable natural metaphor for flexibility, adaptability and growth.

These traditional landscapes — historically photographed by men — act as metaphor for a male view, and through this the feminine metaphor of the «red dot» emerges and creates a visual enigma which deliberately defies this tradition.

We thought that sitting on the tree tops, high above the ground, was a suitable metaphor for creating imaginary worlds.

Tech - Gaming: While role - playing plotlines frequently use metaphor, Hyperdimension Neptunia was distinctive in creating a complete allegory for industry?

I think part of what brings me back to abstraction are the subliminal references that I create or bump into... When it works, this mix of planned and uncontrolled relationships can manifest the kind of tension I'm looking for in the work: perhaps this could even act as a metaphor for the conscious and unconscious mind.

Helicopter (1985), a title ascribed after the painting was finished, offers a contemporary urban metaphor for the abstract affect created by Manister's rhythmic mark combined with flashes of vivid color.

Choosing the humble button as a metaphor for mundane aspects of human existence, she creates extraordinary landscapes by hammering them into Plexiglas and wood panels in a repetitive and meditative process.

The void as defined by the French Symbolist poets such as Mallarm and then later by the Existentialists, Sartre and Camus, was a metaphor for creating something entirely new, solely dependent upon the nature of the art form and its intrinsic properties.

Meanwhile, the sharp contrast between the formal language of the works and their content creates a dynamic that is a perfect metaphor for the artist's quest for utopia within the spiritual ruins of contemporary consumer society.

She has participated in the Taiwan Biennial of the National Taiwan Fine Art Museum, created the exhibition «Life is a metaphor, you are the metaphor» for Artist Artfair, and «Unknown Refraction» in Artist Fair.

These echoes between works (the cleansing bed in DIS's installation and Olga Balema's mattress - like plastic bags filled with water and decaying organic and inorganic materials) created the kinds of metaphors and associational logic for which poetry is famous.

Marx created a lasting metaphor for the tensions, as his 1964 book's subtitle put it, between «technology and the pastoral ideal in America.»

In Abandon, the artist's first site - specific installation created for the Lightwell Gallery, Matelli uses weeds to explore metaphor and meaning.

Her friendship with Joe Gould, who claimed to be writing an «Oral History of the World,» inspired Neel to create what she called a «Visual History of the World» and which she compared to Balzac's «The Human Comedy,» a sprawling series of interconnected novels — an apt metaphor for her entire body of work.

For his recent solo exhibition «From the Library of Dr London», Adam Dant used the city - as - body metaphor to create maps of London, but also of Zurich, Istanbul, Monaco, Tokyo, Manhattan and Paris.

This is a prolific metaphor for the way Murakami feeds off the old imagery in order to create new ones.

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.

The physical situations and actions Gilmore creates for herself and her performers are metaphors for challenges women face culturally and socially.