Sentences with phrase «creates microcosms»

Geneva - based French artist Vidya Gastaldon creates microcosms of hallucinatory, saccharine symbols with her sculptures, drawings, video animations, and prints.

Rodrigo Lobos Huber «s plaster tablets create microcosms out of disparate materials that, once united and flattened, form unlikely constellations.

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Its effort to create community in the face of suspicion, its combination of idealism and despair, its testimony to the corruption of both oppressor and oppressed, and its tragic heroism in trying to actualize human values against impossible odds is a kind of microcosm of much of American history, but it would take a book to do it justice.

That which man has not created and which it is beyond his power to create — the macrocosm of the stars and the microcosm of the cells and atoms — man can understand with an adequacy that points...

That which man has not created and which it is beyond his power to create — the macrocosm of the stars and the microcosm of the cells and atoms — man can understand with an adequacy that points to the common source of both.

Through these experiences the «That» was realized as pure, transcendent, unqualified Consciousness, such that Aurobindo could conclude that, «Consciousness is a fundamental thing, the fundamental thing in existence — it is the energy, the motion, the movement of consciousness that creates the universe and all that is in it — not only the macrocosm but the microcosm is nothing but consciousness arranging itself» (LY 236).

According to Newman, one of the earliest promoters of science through experimentation, the 13th - century philosopher Roger Bacon, argued that creating the Philosophers» Stone required blood because each person was thought to be a microcosm of the whole world.

British artist Linder is possibly best known for a record sleeve she designed for the Buzzcock's single Orgasm Addict in 1977 - an iconic image, of a naked woman with an iron for a head and grinning mouths instead of nipples, has become a symbol, not only of a defining era of punk culture and feminism, but also a microcosm for her expansive body of work, which operates on a deeply contextual level with issues of gender, feminism, stereotyping and sexualisation, echoing the work of Hannah Hoch, the German Dadaist for whom this edition was created in homage.

Each hand - painted form creating a perfect geometric shape is a microcosm of this balance suggesting the breadth of human experience.

Maybe it has something to do with growing up in the city, but marble runs seem to represent a microcosm of the urban world we live in — people in constant motion, continually crossing paths, backtracking, and creating new routes for transport.

Similarly, Pearl C. Hsiung explores the notion of creation in the microcosm, representing cosmic beings created in an epic volcanic eruption in the fantastical painting Shecretes, while Stephanie Taylor's markings in Interstellar Paw Print suggest traces of life on an ambiguous topographical landscape.

She created tableaux using dolls and dollhouses, toy cowboys, dummies, and props, resulting in microcosms of commentary on domestic roles, situations and stereotypes.

At once ultra-feminine, thoroughly organic, suffocating yet teeming with life, Kooi creates highly detailed microcosms that seem to flourish entirely on their own energy.

By the late 1960s, Schmidt had created an eerie microcosm of American culture embedded the Catskills, willed into existence with the simplest materials and glued together with tar.

From this diverse group Simpson and Staton made a concentrated selection of works, creating their own microcosm of the larger collection.

There, he orchestrates his drama of the everyday, creating a rich portrait of his childhood neighbourhood as a microcosm of London.

The artists in Structures create systems, shift contexts, and engage with perception, utilizing unconventional devices such as exhibitions within exhibitions and dramatic shifts in scale between microcosm and macrocosm.

Because many people encounter problems in establishing and maintaining close relationships, a therapy group creates a social microcosm where honest interpersonal explorations with others is encouraged.