Sentences with phrase «hallucinatory states»

«The DNA of the earth; gems, minerals, meteorites, desert landscapes; and hallucinatory states have all taught me about color and its effects on mood,» Huanca explains.

In this hallucinatory state, they believe that they travel to the spirit realm to battle supernatural forces that cause illness.

The room's other notable feature is a mosaic of triangular prisms, made out of black foam, that lines its four walls: the vestiges of an installation by Haroon Mirza for his recent exhibition, designed to create an «anechoic chamber» that shuts out all sound and light (and potentially triggers a hallucinatory state for the sensory - deprived visitor).

Not exact matches

As Ramsay imbues the film with hallucinatory and elliptical imagery, Greenwood symbiotically ebbs and flows alongside, contributing to not only the emotional state of our lead character but to the entire film as a whole.

Cronenberg's method for «adapting» Naked Lunch is roughly analogous to Burroughs's device of «natural» cut - ups, a process of hallucinatory transformation: roach powder becomes hallucinogenic drug, drug taking becomes sex, roach becomes paranoiac operative, wife becomes insect, and Interzone becomes New York experienced in a drugged state.

Many writers state that Doig's work is about recollection, or worse that it's hallucinatory.

Watery, uncontrolled paint flows down the paper, echoing a hallucinatory dream state.

He summons the spectre of Marx in programming the reading of all four volumes of Das Kapital — explicitly an analysis of historical and 19th century labour and market conditions that, some economists would argue (c.f. Thomas Piketty), no longer apply to today's intrisically networked structures of global capital — and in the show's accompanying statement, Enwezor invokes Walter Benjamin's hallucinatory description of Paul Klee's Angelus Novus, a painting Benjamin owned, as justification for his historical methodology as well as the lever to illuminate «both the current «state of things» and the «appearance of things»».

Wortz, a psychologist, was investigating states of sensory deprivation, especially in relation to the disorientation and hallucinatory effects on humans that result from immersion in uniform fields of light and colour, once reference points such as objects and horizons have been removed.