Not exact matches
But we could too easily replace this shallowness by another, cruel as sentimental attitudes inevitably are, which
leaves out
of account the
presence in
human life
of the sheerly irrevocable,
of that which has been done, and it is now too late to undo,
of the damage inflicted on others that can not be put right and that no interpretation can possible render edifying.
Most archaeologists would tell you it couldn't have been
humans, who didn't
leave conclusive evidence
of their
presence in the Americas until about 14,000 years ago.
Human heart cells grown from stem cells show less - robust muscle fibers (green) in the
presence of high levels
of glucose (
left) than when glucose levels were lower (right).
Following a single father who works as a
human billboard in Taipei, and his
left - to - their - own - devices kids, with the
presence of their mother represented by three different actresses, the film has the barest thread
of story (Tsai has admitted that he no longer has any real interest in narrative), and seems determined to provoke less patient audience members into walking out, with a series
of shots that last upwards
of ten minutes without all that much movement in them.
With the implication
of a
human presence, Rafferty's work deals with humor and the absurd, yet there is a sense
of melancholy,
leaving an unsettling feeling in the viewer.
Objects are poised perfectly — a black glass neon shape near the ceiling positioned behind and above you, something you might not notice straightaway but which you catch sight
of as you
leave a room; or the hard, white - and - black, upright protrusions from the wall that, though architectural, designed, and frozen - seeming, have such a
human and tactile
presence, glowing and breathing from behind.
Like graffiti - cloaked fragments
of city walls, the works evoke societies in upheaval and solemnize the distinctly
human impulse to
leave a record
of our
presence.
The absence
of a
human figure tasks the objects in the paintings with suggesting a narrative arc, imbuing them with a sense
of mysterious drama — a door that is slightly ajar, a glass
of water
left on a bathroom sink, a broom leaning against a wall are the only evidence
of the
presence of a person, perhaps having moments before walked through the picture frame, or lingering just out
of sight.
In Big Woman Statue the unidentified hand suggests a void or an unavailability,
leaving room for imagination
of whether or not there is another
human figure, reinforcing the exhibition project's overall interest in the absence and
presence of bodies as well as the tension between the whole body and its parts.
In «Terrain,» the artist asks us to «think about these imprints
left by the material processes
of work as the evidence
of our
presence on the earth... how contemporary
human beings, living in a western urban environment, can relate to the metaphysics
of the labor which enables our lives.»
She comments that, «gazing steadily at the point at which one element meets another, Terrain asks us to think about these imprints
left by the material processes
of work as the evidence
of our
presence on the earth, and to think about how contemporary
human beings, living in a western urban environment, can relate to the metaphysics
of the labor which enables our lives.»
-LSB-...]... To allow ourselves to be inhabited by what
left our field, perhaps our visual field; around us, in the hole inside us, we learn the fullness
of other dimensions
of existence...... The spaces
left empty are the place
of the most intense energy, emanations, auras, tensions, thoughts and the fascinations
of the
human presence... -LSB-...] The drawn objects serve as a backdrop for creating states
of mind, from which the attempt at concentration, at falling inside, at finding the rhythm, the exhaustion through rhythm and the reaching
of a conclusion which is a static stage before a new beginning.»
«No anecdote, no event, nothing sensational, not even the smallest
human presence, just the fascination
of the trace
left by it.
Extreme 12 - month geopotential heights similar to those that occurred in 2013 in association with the Triple R are far more common in the
presence of human greenhouse emissions (
left) than in the absence
of human greenhouse emissions (right).