Sentences with phrase «of fragile bodies»

Fractured Figure projects our millennial moment as one of fragile bodies pitched against a restless, dysphasic backdrop, in which terrorism and global warming impinge as daily realities.

In the studio, her organic forms become anthropomorphic, resulting in sculptures and paintings that are both humorous and grotesque, existing in a space between the artifice of lo - fi movie props and the reality of our fragile bodies.

I'll never forget the too - thin contours of your fragile body, the understanding in your eyes alternating with confusion and skepticism.

Not exact matches

By following Vanier as an old man, the film allows Vanier's body to offer the witness of his words and actions: We are all fragile, and we must love one another.

The general religiousness of that nation, so different in cultural character from that in North America, has contributed both to a measure of forgiveness and mutual trust within a highly plural body politic, These attitudes to be sure are both flawed and fragile, but they have made a difference.

Inadequate amounts of vitamin C cause small vessels in the body which bring nutrients to the skin to become fragile; the skin then breaks down more easily, facilitating the entry of infectious organisms.

I don't agree with your age scenario, RVP is a victim of his own body being fragile as it has nothing to do with his ability / physicality.

When a child is rear facing it makes a vehicle impact less jarring on their fragile bodies and keeps the risk of whip lash lower.

Among them are miscarriage, premature birth (and therefore being too small to survive outside of a mother's body), problems with the pregnancy (i.e. preeclampsia, high blood pressure, problems with the placenta, and infections), birth defects (i.e. chromosomal conditions, fragile x syndrome, spina bifida, cystic fibrosis, and others), stillbirth, and SIDS.

The postpartum period encompasses the first six weeks after delivery, a unique and somewhat fragile period of time in which a woman's body returns back to its pre-pregnant state.

Rear - facing protects the most fragile parts of a young child's body — their head, neck, and backs.

Your body will be fragile from the birth, the exhaustion of a newborn, the insanity of taking care of an entirely new human life.

Their fragile little bodies can not take the impact of whiplash.

Since premature babies are small and more fragile, and because the head of a premature baby is relatively larger in proportion to its body, the baby is unlikely to stretch the cervix as much as a full - term baby.

They complete a rigorous 400 hour competency and certification program and are well - qualified to work on the most fragile of bodies.

«When the weather fluctuates between warm and cold and in bodies of water where there are currents underneath the ice, it can weaken the surface of the ice and make it dangerously fragile even though it seems to be frozen solid,» said Joe Pecoraro, manager of the Park District's Beaches and Pools Unit, who narrated the demonstration.

These kinds of injuries can snap fragile nerves in the brain that carry signals from one part of the body to another.

But they found that the higher birth rates of small creatures made up for their more fragile bodies.

The researchers speculate that more fragile Y - chromosome sperm don't survive as well during periods of high psychological stress, or that stress may affect hormone levels in a mother's body and make them more hospitable to X-chromosome sperm.

Our bodies function on balance where above average consumption of certain food can destroy that fragile and balancing threshold and cause problems to our overall body functions.

Since 90 percent or more of the total ROS in your body are produced within your mitochondria, these fragile components of your cells are continually under siege when there are excessive ROS.

We also have to be careful to not get into a mode of assuming that the human body is always so fragile.

This is the most fragile and gentle area of the breasts, so listen to your body and take your time to ease into it and feel comfortable.

Pasteurization is a damaging process that alters the physical structure of the fragile proteins in milk, resulting in deformed and broken proteins the body is not equipped to handle.

Our body's systems for removing waste and toxins are amazing but they are also fragile and can easily become congested and out of sync, especially if we are not eating well and taking care of ourselves.

Given that you are already in a fragile hormonal state when you come off of the pill, the last thing that you want is to make things harder on your body.

Accompanied by their skittish behaviour and fragile body, it is important that an experienced pet owner handle these small furry ones instead of kids.

So if you have a tiny or fragile dog - this might be KittyBoost or even one of the «body system boosts» such as AdrenoBalance, CardioBoost, LiverBoost, NeuroBoost, SugarBalance, ThyroBalance, or UroBoost.

On this episode of Max A Pooch's Awesome Animal Advocates Annette shares how she and her volunteers pluck the stunned bodies of these fragile creatures from the streets and sidewalks of Chicago.

Confined to a wire cage inside a foul smelling barn, Lily's fragile body endured years of abuse as she birthed litter after litter for the sole purpose of making money for her captors.

We immediately performed bloodwork, X-rays, and other special tests to determine the extent of the damage that such extreme malnutrition had done to Reese's fragile body.

A recent event made me realize that a puppy's body is made up of lots of complicated and fragile parts.

And your dark training will be complete, fury slathered upon the fragile bodies of the fresh, level 5 squid noobs, and the circle of violence will begin anew.

I felt like I had stepped inside one of Vicuña's delicate poems, like my body had entered one of her oh - so - fragile congregations of words.

Throughout his nearly thirty years of production, Ernesto Neto (b. 1964, Rio de Janeiro), has accumulated an extensive portfolio of work, from delicate drawings to large - scale installations to pieces that were created so that they may be penetrated, inhabited, felt, and even smelled, allowing spectators to interact with them and experience their own bodies and feelings, without losing sight of the fact that, like the human body, they are also fragile and delicate.

At once the silvered remains of a martyred saint, and an amputated cyborg's limb, Paul Thek's Untitled (from the series Technological Reliquaries)(ca.1966 - 67) points to enduring fantasies of the meeting of man and metal, and of how technology might protect, preserve, or even reanimate our fragile bodies.

Lying at the fuzzy interface between physical artist and physical world, Solar's body of work is full of ligaments in fragile tension — mineral abstractions connect with metaphors of calcification and sediment, shaped earth binds with fossilized bone.

Altogether, Ray's work negotiates both material and metaphorical references to the body as a fragile, yet resiliant vehicle equally capable of desire, lust, pain, and sorrow.

While the work may be perceived as tough on the one hand, simply because its immediate subject matter is death — it is in fact about beauty, continuity, reconciliation and the resilience of being; because of and in spite of the fragile nature of the body.

This web of resistance also stands as a universal metaphor for life - a silken thread spun from one's own body and connected from a central core to form a network that is as strong as it is fragile, permeable, and transparent.

She will be conducting artist workshops and producing a body of work focusing on the rich, natural, and fragile biodiversity of the area.

More than ever before, in the visual history of its representation, the male body has become the battleground of great political, social and economic forces, making it extremely fragile and ephemeral.

The frank self - portrayal in «Ecdysiast» is echoed in a group of sculptures from the «Jewels» series of the mid 1960s: fragile jewel - encrusted aluminum foil sculptures which represent three extremities of the artist's body: the head, the groin, and the feet, creating a form of «incomplete» self - portraiture.»

In this performance, visitors are struck by a few elements: the relationship between the body and the plant, the fragile equilibrium between the two, the relationship between the performers and the intricacy of their moves.

The pale bodies, swirling with washed out pigment, resemble the fragile identity of an adolescent, pushing and pulling in infinite directions at once.

Known for his work that confronts the fragile limits of perception and physicality, British sculptor Antony Gormley has confronted the human body throughout his career.

Every object, each work of the exhibition, every rigid body, a unit of an open set, realizes its fragile nature, and it's called to function as a completed organism when it is nothing more than an instrument performing a specific operation.

Yet these works had a far greater impact on me than they would have if they had simply been didactic derivatives of canonical postminimal work — for example, the hand and body prints in Jasper Johns and Robert Morris's programmatic process drawings (the former are part of the gallery's latest exhibition), Eva Hesse's fragile tubular latex structures, or Richard Serra's manipulations of lead.

Each orb was formed from a single exhalation of the glass - blower, making each a fragile representation of the act of breathing, drawing a strong relationship to the body and via this, generating a performative self - awareness in relation to the work physically in the visitor as they tread delicately through the gallery.

A central concern is an evocation of the human body and its fragile, messy nature, as well as the passing of time.