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There are also photographs by Felix Gonzalez - Torres, including a group of five framed gelatin silver prints (from an edition of two) showing birds that seem to disappear into the sky, the artist's comment on the fleeting nature of life.

The strength of Tiravanija's work lies precisely in its ephemerality, and the slippery ways it escapes definition, the way it takes the material of the every - day and re-stages it, allowing the viewer a perspective at once banal and deeply profound about the quickly fleeting nature of life itself.

The book deals with the fleeting nature of life and includes the famous passage, «For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under the heavens: A time to be born and a time to die; A time to plant, and an time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to break down and a time to build up.»

The fleeting nature of all living creatures will also be reflectedin a new film installation titled Éphémères (Mayflies).

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And though the second man's eyes have been opened to the fleeting nature of the pleasures of sin, and he has taken steps to create new, real, lasting life for himself, we see in his story the destructive power of past sins to reach into a man's future, destroy any goodness it finds there, and drag him back by his own lusts.

Life is fleeting, of course, and blogging is by its nature an in - the - moment practice.

The film is a look at the fleeting nature of attraction, all done in stop - motion animation and with enough imagination to shame most of its live - action counterparts.

Perhaps the best reason that J.C. Chandor «s Robert Redford - starring survivalist - at - sea tale earns such company is in its life - affirming status; as a sailor battles the elements, as expertly conveyed by the veteran actor, it is impossible not to be moved by his plight and the fleeting nature of all around it.

«I am attempting to create an entropic «spectacle» that consists of very unstable and short lived conglomerates of images that assume their temporary stability only in the context of walls of an exhibition space inadvertently pointing towards the fragile and fleeting nature of existence»

Welty's precisely - crafted, colorful, and beautiful work addresses a wide variety of issues including consumerism, suburbia, narcissism, information overload, language, the fleeting nature of experience, the passage of time, and ultimately, life and death.»

The fleeting nature of the figure's exhausted life is juxtaposed starkly with the effervescent colors floating above him.

For most of her working life colour and our perception of its fleeting nature have been at the heart of her endeavour.

Buckman presented a selection of four large - scale photographs from the series Present Life, which explores time and life's transient nature, investigating themes of mortality and examining the fleeting moment when something living begins to perLife, which explores time and life's transient nature, investigating themes of mortality and examining the fleeting moment when something living begins to perlife's transient nature, investigating themes of mortality and examining the fleeting moment when something living begins to perish.

The works are a commentary on the fleeting nature of time, the fragility of life, the representation of women, and our cultural obsession with disposable objects.

By choosing her locations, yet not the individual objects found within them, Heeseop's work reflects the randomness and fleeting nature of consumerism, and the often short - lived attraction of the «new.»

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Presenting an evolution of his long - time preoccupations with symbolic representations of fleeting states — imagery of flickering flames, melting candles, urns and spider webs — Chaos and Wild Again advances Willmont's inquiry into the ephemeral nature of our human condition, particularly by addressing the experience of what it means to live in a digital world.

Throughout history artists have used symbols such as skulls, decaying flowers and clocks to reference death and the fleeting nature of earthly life.

There in his room in the dark of midnight, swap successful, tooth in hand, I am overwhelmed for a moment by the precious and fleeting nature of childhood, parenthood and life.