Sentences with phrase «life and limb working»

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So I took my life savings — knowing full well that if it didn't work, I had sawed a limb off and I would have to go back to work for somebody else for the rest of my life.

It benefits those who have lost their limbs as a result of domestic and work accidents, and has the potential to improve the lives of service men and women returning from conflict zones.

«Councils across England and Wales are working tirelessly to ensure that disruption to essential «life and limb» services is kept to a minimum during today's strikes,» the LGA said in a statement.

In the 1960s, the performer used his considerable clout in his field to co-create the Stuntman's Association, a group which would fight to safeguard the rights and working conditions of the men and women who risked life and limb for Hollywood.As he grew older, Farnsworth thought it wise to cut back on the athletics and to seek out speaking roles.

According to the Health and Safety Executive, more than 10 million working days were lost last year to musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), including back pain and upper limb disorders, and 80 per cent of adults develop lower back pain at some point in their lives.

A study at Edinburgh University in Scotland says the phenomenon known as «limber tail,» which causes a dog's tail to become limp and difficult to move, tends to affect larger working breeds, and is more common among dogs who live in the north.

The delicacy of the animal's position — limbs outstretched, head slightly tilted — speaks of the underlying fragility of life and, in Hirst's words, the age - old paradox «of trying so hard to do something that you destroy the thing that you're trying to preserve» (D. Hirst, quoted in D. Hirst and G. Burn, On the Way to Work, London, 2001, p. 219).

Phantom Limb on Tour with Musician Jenn Grant Fall 2013 This Fall the work «Phantom Limb» will be traveling with Nova Scotian Musician Jenn Grant during her cross Canada tour and serving as the backdrop for her live performances.

2017 Builders, Circuit 12, Dallas, TX Fantastic Facade, LVL3, Chicago, IL Deconstructed, Terrault Contemporary, Baltimore, MD 2016 Helter Skelter, Launch F18, New York, NY Water Work, Soho House curated by Patrick Muhundro and Andrea Bergart, New York, NY Transaction, Knockdown Center curated by Elijah Wheat Showroom, Queens, NY Knife Hits, Spring / Break Art Show, New York, NY Faulted Valley Fog, Transmitter, Brooklyn, NY Painting Reassembled, SUNY Westchester Community College curated by Erika Mahr, Westchester, NY 2015 Surface Matters, Knockdown Center curated by Holly Shen and Sam Katz, Queens, NY Handmade Abstract, BRIC, Brooklyn, NY Object» hood, Lesley Heller Workspace curated by Inna Babaeva and Gelah Penn, New York, NY 2014 Ultra Deep Field, Rockford University Art Gallery, Rockford, IL Site Lab, Old Morton Hotel, Grand Rapids, MI BRIC Biennial, BRIC Arts in partnership with LIU University, Brooklyn, NY Insider Joke, Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, UK 2013 Rushgrove House, Rushgrove House in conjunction with the Royal College of Art, London, UK Limber: Spatial Painting Practices, Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury UK and the Grandes Galleries de L'Erba, Rouen, France Material, Storefront Bushwick, curated by Liz Dimmitt, Brooklyn, NY Middle Zone, Projekt 722, curated by Corydon Cowansage, Brooklyn, NY No Longer Preseidents But Prophets, Delicious Spectacle, Washington DC Inside Voices, Parallel Art Space, Brooklyn, NY Contemporary Drawing Today, Fort Worth Drawing Center, Fort Worth, TX Paint Things, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA 2012 Bleach Blue, FJORD Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Primary, Nudashank, Baltimore, MD Masculinisms, Garden Party / ARTS, Brooklyn, NY Rockford Midwestern Biennial, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL Fakin It, Meyer Gallery, University of Cincinnati, OH 2011 Living Arrangements, PLUG Projects, Kansas City, MO Off the Wall, Visceglia Gallery at Caldwell College, Caldwell, NJ Small Crowd, Mixed Greens, New York, NY Out of Practice, Art Blog Art Blog curated by Nudashank, New York, NY RISD Graduate Thesis Exhibition, Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence, RI New Insights, Art Chicago with NEXT cuarted by Suzanne Ghetz, Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL 2010 Interriuer / Exterieur, Dubois Galerie, Pont - Aven School of Contemporary Art, France Boston Young Contemporaries, 808 Gallery, Boston University Totemic, The Gelman Gallery, RISD Museum, Providence, RI

The fine tendrils of stainless steel reference date palms and the moss - covered limbs and leaves of live oak trees of her native Louisiana; the work as a whole an exercise in considering her interest in water, buoyancy, and womb - like floating.

The nudes and floral still lifes are all copies of famous European works by the likes of Ingres, Manet and Van Gogh that have been subtly and not so subtly altered to include suggestions of physical disabilities: walking canes, amputated limbs, brain scans.

«I live near the Pacific ocean and walk along the beach everyday - all the beautiful limb - like forms of seaweed and algae find their way into my work as do the colors of the water, sky and tree forms.

The habits and mental agitations of digital work life persisted like phantom limbs.

The artists whose work is shown in these pages have all given new life to old limbs, keeping them out of the trash, and alive in our sometimes - nightmarish - sometimes - innocent dreams.

Check out this piece in the Wall Street Journal online, Risking Life and Limb, Riding a Bike to Work in L.A..

An individual who has lost a limb and is working with physical therapy assistants to learn how to use a prosthetic replacement, for example, but is in good overall health otherwise, will be able to obtain a life insurance policy more easily than a person who is very severely limited in function and abilities.