Sentences with phrase «like archeological digs»

There is so much physical destruction happening in different parts of the world, to the extent that many functioning cities look like archeological digs.

But it was also the nihilism of my 20s that I wanted to keep buried, that part of my life that felt more like an archeological dig than a personal story.

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It's like an archeological discovery where you find some manuscript that confirms an ancient oral tradition, he says, except instead of digging in the dirt, we dug into the genome.

«It was like we were on an archeological dig on sacred ground,» Woodard recalls.

I have often heard it said that some schools are like archeological sites; digging would reveal layer after layer of fossilized school reforms and obsolete programs.

One of his most famous works, the Tate Thames Dig, was executed in three phases: an archeological dig, the cleaning and classifying of objects, and the display, which consisted of «Cabinets of Curiosities» consisting of items like plastic toys, oyster shells, and clay pipes, challenging institutional and museological discoursDig, was executed in three phases: an archeological dig, the cleaning and classifying of objects, and the display, which consisted of «Cabinets of Curiosities» consisting of items like plastic toys, oyster shells, and clay pipes, challenging institutional and museological discoursdig, the cleaning and classifying of objects, and the display, which consisted of «Cabinets of Curiosities» consisting of items like plastic toys, oyster shells, and clay pipes, challenging institutional and museological discourses.

The work features imagery from Attic vases, others the Kouros, or Edymion figure; some make use of ancient Greek, Coptic and early Arabic scribbling and graffiti, functioning like a wall found in a Ptolemaic archeological dig.

Writing for Art in America, artist and critic Carrie Moyer observed, «[Congdon's paintings are] neither history paintings nor landscapes, [but] more like candy - colored billboards advertising a stroll through a scenic archeological dig or a verdant classical garden.»

As if ancient relics recovered from some archeological dig, his paintings are like modern hieroglyphs each telling a story of a time and place, that of the here and now.