Sentences with phrase «metaphor for community»

In my church we have a metaphor for the community.

Spots, Dots, Pips, Tiles is threaded with examples of artists addressing the complexities of dominoes as game and a metaphor for community, aesthetic inspiration, and theory for international relationships.

A pizza - themed exhibition seemed fitting for the opening of the gallery's new downtown space, Neykov says: «Sharing a pizza is a metaphor for community and getting together.»

Our Lord's metaphors for his community of witness were all modest: a little salt, a little yeast, a little light.

Not exact matches

Smith's famous «invisible hand» metaphor for how the pursuit of self - interest can lead to overall social benefit takes for granted the conditions of justice, trust and community that allow for mutual exchange.

The image of a blossoming pear tree, buzzing with bees and dusting the world with pollen, becomes her image of community and her metaphor for what marriage should be.

It's just a small incarnational moment, hardly worth noticing for most of the world, but for me, this was a metaphor moment of life in the Kingdom, life in the glorious truth of worship in spirit and truth, Jesus - shaped leadership as servanthood, and so our family's lighting of another candle within community, with their affirmation and prayers and participation, pushed back just a bit more of the darkness, and then we scattered back out again.

If the church is still our defining community, as I think for Christians it must be, then it is so in part because it breaks the metaphor of home.

This metaphor emphasizes that the autonomy and security of each community's religious experience and expression must be guarded by all members of the extended family, and that the interaction within the common spaces of the house must be governed by mutually agreed codes of conduct allowing for free exchange of ideas and not leading to the theological «annexing» of one unit by another.

Ederle's historic 14 1/2 - hour swim across the channel is «an apt metaphor for the journey we've taken on this rec center,» said Community Board 7 member Mel Wymore, who explained it took 13 years of work, three Parks commissioners, nine Community Board 7 Chairs and two City Councilmembers to bring the project to fruition.

While the phrase «Netflix and chill,» may be, in some communities, a metaphor for more than movie watching, sometimes you really do want to share a first date over a great film.

Ramin weaves an intricate family melodrama which acts as a metaphor for the bigger geopolitical problem facing the Midwestern farming communities.

Lucky has the same affection pouring out of it, which makes it easy to forgive its clumsier attempts at symbolism (there's a much - discussed lost tortoise that serves as a cheerfully obvious metaphor for Lucky's own hard - shelled existence) and its mostly caricatured picture of community.

At the core of Valor's model is Compass, a competency - based human development model that serves as a metaphor for growth for all members of the Valor community.

From the Ashes: Rebirth of the Human Spirit, Group Exhibition 2014 Gallery for Good, The Community Foundation, Washington, DC Group Exhibition 2014 Biggs Museum of American Art, Dover, Delaware, Picture Landscape, Group Exhibition 2014 Black Rock Center for the Arts, Germantown, MD, Invitation to a Metaphor, Solo Exhibition 2014 Thelma Harris Gallery, Oakland, California, Group Exhibition 2014 Rogue Community College, Grants Pass, Oregon, The Subject of War, Group Exhibition 2014 Charles Krouse Reporting Fine Art, Washington, DC, Beyond Red and Blue, Group Exhibition 2014 WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY, Over the Edge: Paperworks Unbound, Group Exhibition 2014 Pittsburgh State University, Pittsburg, PA..

Elsewhere in this section, thread and woven fabric are used repeatedly as a metaphor for the individuals that compose a community — most successfully in the beautiful threaded compositions and performances of Italian artist Maria Lai.

The noble metal serves as a metaphor for the strength of this community of women.

Can it be a metaphor for the ongoing used of steroids within the sports community, or can it be interpreted in the similar matter brought up by Hank Willis Thomas, are these metaphoric representations of slave ancestors and cotton fields?

Norwood Viviano's glass and metal works use cutting - edge technology and historical data to explore population shifts; the fragility of his medium becomes a metaphor for the delicate equilibrium of communities, industry, and environment.

This is further punctuated by the faceless apparitions surrounding him, who act as metaphor for the unknown fighters for justice and equality, including the Black women who served as the backbone of the movement through their community work.

«Finding inspiration in fractals, accretive formations, and the Fibonacci sequence, Abarbanel creates art that often simultaneously evokes microscopic and aerial perspectives, such that the compositions serve as metaphors for archetypal relationships between people, between individuals and communities, and between humankind and the planet.

Built beyond the boundaries of the urban plan, on a hillside of volcanic rock, the self - made neighborhood required an approach to building, materials, and community solidarity that has served as both a metaphor and a methodology for Cruzvilleagas» ongoing approach to artmaking.

The strength of the metal serves as a metaphor for the resilience of this community of women.

«A central activity was the establishment of a community garden, which not only yielded edible produce, but was also used as a metaphor for child development and the nurturing aspect of relationships,» Mario said.

The garden is a great metaphor for my work on creating caring learning communities with my kid's schools.

Weaving her own creative approaches to healing with the principals of Ericksonian Hypnotherapy, Play Therapy, Native American, Hawaiian, and other transcultural teaching, Dr. Mills teaches participants to create and utilize Storytelling, Artistic, StoryCrafts, and Living Metaphors to effect transformational change for children, adolescents, families and communities with whom they work.