Sentences with phrase «like shadows on a wall»

Either way, there is here, once again, no such thing as objective truth — just the passing shades of our own subjective experiences, like shadows on a wall.

His paintings are illusions, which raise the question of perception, like the shadows on the wall in the analogy of Plato's cave.

Not exact matches

The technique, called crystallography, was a bit like making a shadow animal on the wall with one's hand and a flashlight.

Like Fukuda, they used a strategically placed light source to cast their own shadows on the wall.

It's like looking at a tremendous shadow cast on a wall.

As Conners, you must rely on undetected operations, in which you hide in the shadows, suspend from ceilings, seek refuge inside environmental objects like storage lockers, or slide around walls to peer around corners.

The sunlight came through the window and cast a shadow like a cross on the wall.

«The idea behind Projection: First Light went off like a lightbulb in my head when I recalled playing with shadows on a wall as a child,» said Michael Chu, Founder, Shadowplay Studios.

Classic Naruto abilities like running on walls and fast - paced shadow jumping are present, and proved to be instrumental in getting around the map.

On the opposite wall, Ellen Phelan's Autumn Bay, 2003, investigates a similar duality, but her painting, shrouded in a nocturnal mist, seems more like a reminiscence whose shadows derive from the vagueness of memory.

A black triangle connects three small African gods on the floor to the black outlines of four men on the wall, like enormous cast shadows.

Entering the darkened recess of a separate chamber constructed on the gallery floor, the viewer finds a wall - sized shadow tableau of all the elements previously encountered, but here unified, like multiple different arts coming together to create an opera.

She's known for making wooden cubes with laser - cut mashrabiya - like patterns that cast lacy shadows on the wall — instantly transforming a white cube gallery into a dreamscape that wouldn't look out of place in the Alhambra.

Their pure white and dense black ribbons float from wall into mid-air, throwing sharp shadows onto the gallery walls and alluding to the organic and the mystical, like the artist's gentle transcriptions on canvas.

Made of swarms of tens of thousands of small pieces of graphite attached to the wall, the lustrous, gem - like pieces cast what appear to be shadows that are actually soft graphite marks drawn directly on the wall.

The light throws intricate wallpaper - like shadows on surrounding walls, adding instant interest to a white room.

I could picture geckos crawling around so I followed up with a chandelier that would cast shadows like a tree and hide them on the walls.