All the ecosystems now bear
the mark of human presence, but the scale and speed of change in the last 60 years, called by scientists The Great Acceleration, also led them to name anthropocene this new geological epoch — an era marked by the strong impact of human activities upon the atmospherical and geological evolution of planet earth.
Not exact matches
At its heart, Luther's early theology is
marked by a strong emphasis on what the scholastics called uncreated grace, grace as the
presence of the uncreated God, and on the transformation
of the
human heart by God in the utter transcendence
of His Godhead.
One
of the
marks of the
presence of the Holy Spirit is the acknowledgement by fallible men that the pure love
of God can not be claimed for any
human community, even the Church.
I am struck with the observation that perhaps the reason
Mark ended his Gospel on this strange note
of fear was «to emphasize
human inadequacy, lack
of understanding, and weakness in the
presence of supreme divine action and its meaning.»
The vivid imagination and the sharp observation
of men and nature that
marked his mind; his acquaintance with common speech and his joy in the use
of proverbs; indeed, his capacity to express in creative speaking with a skill that only a poet and genius possesses the whole range
of human emotions from awe in the
presence of the numinous to the feelings
of the body — all are reflected in his sermons (as also in the commentaries, his work
of the lecture room), not consistently,
of course, and not every time, yet most impressively in the Church Postil Sermons, one
of the products
of his exile on Wartburg Castle, written in order to furnish to the preachers
of the Reformation examples
of Biblical preaching.
Capturing the less celebrated corners
of the UK — so nameless they are often embedded deeply into our consciousness and then forgotten — they are spaces
marked with the richness
of human activity, yet bereft
of human presence.
Without applying the actual body, or making intentional
markings with the ink, her large scale monoprints on paper appear to carry traces
of human figures and faces — the weight
of bodily flesh and quality
of a spirit - like
presence.
«In all my works, «Dubuffet said, «there are two different winds that blow, one carrying me to exaggerate the
marks of intervention, and the other, the opposite, which leads me to eliminate all
human presence... and to drink from the source
of this absence» (J. Dubuffet, quoted on Fondation Jean Dubuffet website, accessed at: http://www.dubuffetfondation.com/home.php?lang=en).
Working in a variety
of media from light to wood to paint, these artists» geometric sculptures and paintings, carefully crafted with moments
of exacting perfection, delibertly retain the
presence of the wayward
human gesture and humble hand - made
mark, imbuing them with a quiet and understated transcendental beauty.
Each meticulously composed space is
marked with the richness
of human activity, yet largely devoid
of human presence.
Lam Hoi Sin uses a dating app to pursue interpersonal relationships that go beyond geographic restrictions; Cheng Ting Ting creates paintings depicting scenes
of horse racing devoid
of human presence; and
Mark Chung uses found footage to create a large - scale installation arranged like firework displays.
Through her chosen media
of painting, sculpture and video, the artist exposes the nature
of human experience to time and space,
marked by a multitude
of binary ideas which include transparency and opacity,
presence and absence, and light and shadow.
The slow - paced scenes
of «High Water
Mark» focus on the texture and scenic beauty
of cathedral - like corridors and iconic waterways, punctuated by the disruptive sounds
of motorized
human presence in the otherwise silent desert landscape.
My arrogance disappears, though, as I begin to treasure these
marks as signs
of the artist's touch, a
human presence revealing the maker and her craft.
Works by Louise Bourgeois, Rachel Whiteread, and Haegue Yang signify
human presence through objects that bear the subtle
marks of use.
Gutai paintings were the result
of a surface being heavily manipulated by
human presence, in which the body is used as brush or
mark - making device, resulting in a hybrid object somewhere between the act
of painting and the action
of the body.
Thus,
marking its
presence in the modern corporate world today,
human resources department has become an inevitable part
of any organization.