Sentences with phrase «marks of human presence»

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.

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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.
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