Sentences with phrase «ephemeral things»

The Revolt of the Sage is an example of what the artist would call a «metaphysical interior», and yet its crowded pictorial space overflows with ephemeral things: frames, measuring devices and biscuits.

At times, Oakoak uses photography and timing to turn ephemeral things like a ray of sunlight into yet another street artwork.

Another reason someone might want to turn stacks of money into a wristwatch is that ephemeral thing called provenance — the possession of something with a link to history.

Houses in Japan are rather ephemeral things — they have an astonishingly brief lifespan of just 25 years on average.

Houshiary shows us that what can not normally be seen matters every bit as much as what we take for granted; she celebrates the ceaseless rhythm and energy within ephemeral things, invisible but ever - present in the perceptible world.

I don't want to dissuade you, but, the logical truth is a fragile, ephemeral thing in the «debate space» you are referring to.

It seems that the more ephemeral a thing is, the harder the producer tries to gain additional rights to the means by which it is delivered, something that seems to me quite inconsistent with the recent SCC decisions.

So Augustine describes the love of wisdom as an effort to «gather our whole soul somehow to that which we attain by the mind, to station ourselves and become wholly entrenched there, so that we may no longer rejoice in our own private goods, which are bound up with ephemeral things, but instead cast aside all attachment to times and places and apprehend that which is always one and the same.»

The work of many contemporary artists reflects (or alternatively, inverts) what we observe culturally: myriad efforts to create and capture those ethereal, ephemeral things like moments and meaning.

While the nature of a mobile map result makes «ranking» sort of an ephemeral thing — the order & radius of results will vary depending on the searcher's physical location — there are a factors that seem to most positively correlate with showing up prominently in Apple Maps:

Games are ephemeral things, with standards that change as the latest thing comes out.

But I don't think any of these ephemeral things would work with Trump.

Returning to his work and life as an individual artist, Ulay further explored the extent to which the photographic image can embody a facet of spirituality lying beneath the ephemeral things surrounding us.

Mike Kelley at Hauser & Wirth Kandors 1999 - 2011 By Lorraine Heitzman Through January 21st Lacking a physical presence, memories are enigmatic and ephemeral things that may haunt us for unknown reasons or reveal the truth embedded and enshrouded in a reconstructed past.

An interesting question in the chain of evidence: how good is a copy of an ephemeral thing, and possibly an obfuscated thing, where the thing in question is a malleable collection of electrons with no glaringly obvious way to authenticate it.

Ah, what an ephemeral thing celebrity affection is...