Sentences with phrase «into fragility»

This formidable work relates to Schütte's interest in shifts of scale; although epic, the work remains an investigation into fragility.

William and Stillwell chose to study green roofs over other forms of green infrastructure for a very simple reason: There was one on campus fitted with the instrumentation needed to measure soil moisture, rainfall amount, temperature, humidity and many other variables that are plugged into their fragility curve model.

Not exact matches

At this moment of fragility, raising rates risks tipping some part of the financial system into crisis, with unpredictable and dangerous results.

Correlation risk: «The concept of diversification is the foundation of modern portfolio theory... The financial engineer... reduces the risk of a portfolio by combining anti-correlated assets... All modern portfolio theory does is transfer price risk into hidden short correlation risk... Many popular institutional investment strategies derive excess returns via implicit leveraged short correlation trades with hidden fragility... Correlation risk can be isolated and actively traded via options as source of excess returns.

The case studies offer insight into the terrible fragility of moral sensibility, the ways in which it can be manipulated and overwhelmed, and the thoroughness of that process.

In his weakness and ordinariness, in the ease of his dismissal by those seeking something larger, in the character of his fragility, which fits so neatly into the world and into what is despicable about the world, Jesus is the Nobody whose prayer can mirror and fulfill the plodding of true prayer.

An American novelist who writes like a native Irishman, O'Grady spins his long, complex relationship with the game into a striking meditation that stylishly links his father, Arnold Palmer, Golf in the Kingdom and the fragility of the swing.

We are only seven games into the 2015 - 16 Premier League season, and already the two title favourites — Chelsea and Manchester City — have demonstrated remarkable fragility.

Hopefully this will have dispelled a lot of that fragility, and we now can face Leicester and Tottenham in the next week with some added confidence and start clawing our way back up into the Top Four.

Western governments, who feared that Yemen's descent into chaos might give space for al - Qaeda to grow in strength, have been working with the Gulf Cooperation Council to tackle the security risks posed by Yemen's fragility.

Due to the fragility of atom - thin graphene, previous methods to bend or mold it into complex shapes resulted in uneven, ill - formed objects at best, and a ruptured mess at worst.

When the film starts, he's a confident, sometimes brash husband - to - be, but his discovery of human remains begins his descent into confusion, vulnerability, and ultimately fragility.

With this documentary Rivers allows a lot of access into her private life, revealing both her strength as a performer and her fragility as a person.

Imagine if you had a second chance to tell that loved one you lost how much you loved them, or were able to do the things you wished you had done the first time, but you hesitated because you didn't take into account the fragility of life.

Gosling, the new Edward Norton / Christian Bale, creates in Dean the very figure of arrested American masculine fragility, spinning himself into a fugue of unrequited desires and frustrated ambition.

His publisher dad Ethan (Pierce Brosnan) wants Thomas at least to move back into the family's palatial flat, mainly to be close to mother Judith (Cynthia Nixon), whose supposed fragility is the subject of far too many scenes.

This illness forced me into seclusion, where painful closeted encounters unveiled my mental fragility and debilitation.

Which inevitably invokes a much deeper fear, of the same intangibility inherent in our fiat currencies, our fiscal obeisance to governments who seem dead - set on printing & spending their way into oblivion, the fragility of our financial assets & markets (which now exist only as electronic blips on hackable centralised repositories), and our economic future & security itself.

Even though many of the Apostles have crashed into the ocean over the years, they're beautiful in their fragility.

From Hannah Wilke's unflinching self - portraits in illness and Matthew Barney's performance - based installation to Cindy Sherman's surreal photographs and Kara Walker's antebellum figures, Into Me / Out of Me examines how artists have explored the physical and psychological boundaries of their bodies and those of others creating images of fragility and strength, illness and suffering, tenderness and violence.

Galerie Lelong presents 14 striking new sculptures by Petah Coyne in Vermilion Fog, an exhibition divided into two parts — Dante's Inferno and Unforgiven, allusions to literature and film that loosely frame the works by themes of loss, chaos, and redemption.Vermilion Fog is a monumental exhibition for the artist known for her use of diverse materials in large works whose grace and fragility belie their immense weight and arduous process.

Because of the fragility of chalk, it has to distance the visitor even further from the work, and it risks turning the room of blackboards into an accidental installation.

Capturing invisible rays of light, ashes from human cremation, and the volatile reactions of primary elements on metal plates, melding aesthetic interests with natural science, this exhibition offers visitors a rare insight into the artist's most recent explorations of exposure, fragility and change.

His subjects are often placed in a state of physical hardship or locked in a battle with the elements, offering unsettling insights into our psychological fragility.

Much as Bracha's drawings and paintings foreground the fragility of the archival material, her videos evoke an atmosphere of water and explore, with jellyfish and butterfly, how the fluidity of the medium allows images — often drawn from Bracha's paintings, drawings, notebooks, and family photographs of mothers and daughters — to emerge and recede, to fade into one another, and to move between bodies and generations.

Numerous rods of chalk will be lodged into the fissures and openings of the gallery's brick walls from floor to ceiling, revealing the material's inherent instability and fragility.

Combining traditional and contemporary techniques and mediums such as gesso and gold on vellum, award - winning photographer, Sandi Daniel goes beyond the image, reinventing it into an alternate reality and evoking feelings of romance while addressing the fragility of nature.

In a recent exhibition here, I was taken by the small and delicate way that Shersty puts the work into the world — not unlike, it might seem, the fragility that can accompany personal histories.

To highlight their fragility, she incorporates them into the work after passing them through an obstructed photocopier, or more recently, using them as symbolic source imagery.

Destruction is a key part of the way Kiefer works as a visual artist: he transforms the image into something new, giving a sense of its vulnerability, its fragility, its transformative characteristics.

With CATALIN, «a Wagnerian hybrid environment of sculpture, film, music, fragrance, theater, performance, and grand spectacle» at Jones Center; and Pet Sounds, sculptures at Laguna Gloria that «begin as railings and morph into luscious, playful blobs that engage the viewer with murmurs, vibrations, and strange sounds when touched,» Long explores the human condition «and the fragility of our physical and psychological worlds.»

The traps are harnessed within themselves as objects, until human intervention turns them into questions for the audience about their own vulnerability and fragility.

In this instance, the artist's own boxing gloves are joined with a neon diagram of the uterus, thereby transforming a traditional image of fragility into a symbol of resistance.

As a musician in her own right releasing material via Sound Esc, she's taken a similar approach to her own video and gif work since 2012, by accumulating multiple self - portraits replicating instances of «vanity, fragility and serendipitous beauty» in online user - generated content to establish a thread that feeds into a stronger current of contemporary culture.

The fragility and sensuality of the glass, hot - sculpted and blown into shapes of futuristic ray guns, may tempt viewers to play with the art, but the inherent danger of weapons is ever present.

But taken in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, and showing the vast area of the city subsequently plunged into darkness, it is a sobering reminder of the fragility of the human - built in the path of nature.

A sincere gesture towards making a curious and beautiful object, brimming with anxiety, combining notions of the sublime and its fragility into one canvas.

His performative interventions accentuate the fragility of sociocultural practice by disguising subtle interference into reality and thus pointing to the inconspicuous situations or structures which would have been otherwise overlooked.

This month's exhibition features Susan Roston's exquisite ceramic sculptures which reflect how movement, water & fragility in a solid form translate into life at its most basic level.

In collaboration with New York's Envoy Enterprises, Rose's exhibition uses photography and painting, incorporating various materials through ritualistic cycles of creation and destruction into complex, haunting collages that explore the fragility of the human condition.

Like a folkloric odyssey into a cognitive web, his mixed - media works and installations traipse through places of fragility and wistfulness; evidence of the divine and unsettling encounters inherent to our complex mortality.

Through the artist's delicate craft of producing whimsical ghost - like figurines in porcelain and melding them into similarly enigmatic landscapes, Geng Xue constructs a nuanced space in which human fragility meets spiritual otherworldliness.

The late Shelagh Wakely channelled nature's wonders into works that married splendour with fragility.

Fusing nature and culture, Kendler presents this work as a peek into the new hybrid human / animal beings that we are, allowing us to walk in this world of sensorial, temporal fragility.

Latex, a rubbery material used for molds, was adapted by Hesse for its inert and artless quality; unfortunately, it is not an archival material, and nearly 50 years later Aught appears to be on the verge of crumbling into dust, which most likely would have pleased Hesse, who loved the expression of fragility in her work.

Despite her work's softness, fragility, and pink - purple — powder blue tonalities, the underlying fact of her chosen materials» toxicity makes the artist more of a riot grrrl version of Agnes Martin exploded into three dimensions than the hausfrau hobbyist that the typical, sexist reading of her work implies.

His sculptural work, which is labor - intensive and often involves the transformation of materials, distills these complex and universal states into meditations on fragility and change.

This changing landscape, forged by shifting images of majestic beings and the land between Mount Kilimanjaro and the Chyulu Hills, comes into focus only momentarily — reminding us of the fragility of the world and our complicity with its longevity.

The effect of this camouflage is a mixture of stepping into the everything - is - possible realm of a rendering window where texture - tiles are seamlessly plastered onto cylinders, spheres and squares, and touching the actual fragility of a physical sketch model.

There is also an interesting tension between the fragility of the work and its often mammoth scale — the main piece in this show is so huge it looks like it has been squeezed into the room.