Sentences with phrase «metaphors for the decay»

The bodies of the Frazier women, all affected by illnesses related to Braddock's industrial history, act as a metaphor for the decay of Braddock's landscape.

Not exact matches

But in terms of its bleak finality, it makes for one hell of a swan song, operating as a meticulous, concentric metaphor for the slow decay and eventual death of animals, people, families, language, countries, political systems — the whole bit.

Such banal items become metaphors for the inevitability of age and decay, but tempered with humor, hope and humanity.

These echoes between works (the cleansing bed in DIS's installation and Olga Balema's mattress - like plastic bags filled with water and decaying organic and inorganic materials) created the kinds of metaphors and associational logic for which poetry is famous.

For Silverthorne the worksite and its contents, including herself, become inextricable metaphors of existence, age and decay.

Raul Ortega Ayala constructs a Tower of Babel of fat and bones, an apt metaphor for the ruin and decay of our times.

Known for extensively researched projects that survey places in transformation, Thiel uses the quince tradition in Cuba as a metaphor for a culture in fux, creating a portrait of a generation of young women alongside that of a city rich in heritage yet coming to terms with change and decay.

That project uses the bodies of the artist, her mother, and her grandmother both to reveal complex intergenerational relationships and to serve as a metaphor for their town's decay.