Obviously, one has to press on with the
mundanity of daily existence but always with an awareness that if that news is unfavourable, then the time doing those routine things would have been infinitely better spent running up a spectacular bar tab in Tijuana and going out in style.
Rock explores the insanity and inanity of celebrity culture vs. artistic integrity with Top Five, and while his previous two directorial efforts, Head of State and I Think I Love My Wife, never really connected with audiences (though I do like the latter), he's a more natural fit here essentially satirizing
aspects of his daily existence as a comedian and actor.
Our protagonist is faced with a choice of living in a complete fantasy, one that is idealized, and the all - too - bleak
reality of her daily existence.
Born hard - of - hearing and diagnosed early with autism, the Belgian artist creates work from strange juxtapositions of everyday objects, revealing new
facets of their daily existences.
Filled with magical realism in the face of the cold reality of modern life, these stories are about discovering something precious in the
chaos of daily existence.
Thinking of the photographs in this series as observations of overlooked or forgotten details and
remnants of daily existence, Letinsky ultimately transforms this refuse into a subject worthy of close study - objects of real beauty.
Regularly employing quotidian products and residual materials drawn from her domestic life and environment in Glasgow, Wilkes's installations connect the
banalities of daily existence to larger archetypes of birth, marriage, child - rearing, and death.
Most importantly, for the lead role, I wanted to find a blind actor — not a sighted actor attempting to capture the complexities and
subtleties of daily existence with blindness.
Sick of their daily existence, they might as well have a chance to live it up a little before they pass on, and to do that, the trio gets together in a scheme to steal what they can from a local bank.
In «Like a Leaf Carried Off by the Wind,» a man works at a place «where he is not known and where his job is a mystery even to himself,» while the narrator of «Bury Your Face in Your Hands» struggles with the
vagueness of daily existence: «There is no way to clear the haze in which we live... The silent snow of thought melts before it has a chance to stick.»
As Akhil Sharma's novel eloquently shows, the
beauty of our daily existence is that the small joys might sometimes be hidden but they are always on offer.
So, at the beginning of this new year, while I dig out of the large pile of snow Mother Nature just dumped on us here in New England, I want to thank my real - world and virtual - world friends, and my blog readers, for being there, and for helping to leaven the heart - breaking parts of the actual with the sheer
vitality of your daily existence.
Flatbed printing, 3 - D scanning and CNC (Computer Numerical Control) milling are some of the processes used by these artists, but there is also a decided humanity that can be found in all of the works, either via human representation or or through the
relics of our daily existence.
Seen through the architecture of voyeurism — glass doors, railings and other obstacles — in spaces that are visually but not physically accessible, Walker's paintings show the beauty in what the gallery refers to as intermittent instants of stillness to be found in the lost
moments of daily existence.
His work dredges up questions of masculinity, complacency, and anxiety, ultimately bringing to light the very real banality and
stillness of a daily existence versus that of the bright and boisterous life advertised.
During the past decade, humor has turned up with increasing frequency in galleries and museums, perhaps as an acknowledgment of the urgent need among artists and audiences alike to laugh at the
absurdity of daily existence — and the art world itself.
Taking its title from the post-hardcore band Unwound's ode to apathy, boredom and the
repetition of daily existence, Wallace's work - a-day approach mines beauty from his utilitarian materials and dogged spacial investigations.
Comprised of a series of large - scale collages based on the lyrics of popular songs, Soundtrack To My Life continues Perry's interest in observing, collecting and utilizing the pedestrian materials and experiences of daily life to comment on the
permeation of daily existence by consumer culture.
Perry appears in every image, though she never reveals her face, emphasizing the dichotomy between personal identity and the
anonymity of daily existence.
Magnifying the emotional charge or chance beauty lurking within forgettable objects, Costa's is an «art of the incidental» which elides the gap between artistic experimentation and the unpredictable
turns of daily existence.
Uniting the collection is the observation of everyday life: from Roy Lichtenstein's and Ben Nicholson's engagement with the tradition of still life painting to Dubuffet's interest in domestic objects and the hustle and
bustle of daily existence.
It is only when we silent the blaring
sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts.
This is a powerfully connective ghost story that doubles as Assayas» most ambitious undertaking yet, blending elements of suspense, intrigue, intimacy, gore, and batshit crazy into the
mundanity of daily existence.
It is the reality that no one dares to speak about; the tough
reality of daily existence that reaches out to us from displaced communities — from migrant workers, victims of ecological and natural disasters and sex workers to the new homeless — all sharing the dream of a better life.
I feel lucky to have been exposed to it as a practitioner and I hope to learn ways to help incorporate it into the lives of my patients, while also making it an essential
part of my daily existence.
The joke of the film is, of course, that Corky is so incompetent in every
facet of daily existence that he'll make a lovable mess out of every madcap situation in which he finds himself, all the while winning the approval of his co-workers and family and eventually saving the day.
The Studio Wall Drawings map Tyson's
experience of daily existence, as a space to consider universal questions, and to record deeply personal moments, charting, in Tyson's words, «a kind of emotional headline of the day.»
Her work combines the universal and the personal by drawing the
banalities of daily existence to larger archetypes of birth, marriage, child - rearing and death.
You can be blessed and assured of your blessings in this life and the life to come, walking in 100 % Victory in all aspects
of your daily existence.
Graham presents his audience with a startlingly honest insight into the reality
of daily existence.
By disrupting the mundanity
of daily existence he promotes the creative act as an integral and dynamic part of 21st century life.