Sentences with phrase «physical fabric of»

Focusing on the physical fabric of the urban built environment and the hyper - city, her lens - based practice meticulously captures and transcribes its viral quality and alienating sense of the spectacular, while always maintaining an objective distance.

David Adjaye described the building as a «new typology for affordable housing» and expressed his enthusiasm at engaging with «the cultural, social and physical fabric of Harlem».

This figure takes to the streets — of London, in the case of Poe's protagonist — wandering far and wide with no fixed itinerary, and gathers clues to the nature of modern experience by observing the physical fabric of the burgeoning industrial city, its inhabitants and their public activities.

Rachel Toms, leader of the Design Council's Active by Design programme, looks at how the physical fabric of a school can be altered to encourage a more active lifestyle among school children

In this article we look at the physical fabric of the school and how it can help create a highly active place to learn in.

Not exact matches

Yet low safety risks, less physical demands than most other careers and peaceful work environment make working with fabric and thread one of the least stressful for 2013.

Or since energy can be neither created or destroyed but moves from one form to another could it not move from one universe to another though a tiny tear in the fabric between universes where the big bang is simply the physical evidence of that energy bursting into this universe?

Indeed, we live in an era in which, often, the physical presence of Christ comes second best to a coffee table draped with colourful fabric topped with multiple candles as a focus for prayer.

Tyvek ® combines the best physical properties of paper, film, and fabric, to offer unique advantages for a wide variety of demanding packaging applications.

Remember to always choose a baby carrier that's appropriate for the age, weight, and physical development of your little one, but also choose one that's made of the right type of fabric for your own comfort as well as your baby's.

With two durable rings and plenty of extra fabric, you'll be able to adjust this wrap to suit any wearer's physical needs.

His theories of relativity gave time a physical identity as part of space - time, a malleable fabric on which reality's events play out (see «Why now doesn't exist, and other strange facts about time»).

They found no signs of a hypothetical type of dark matter, which consists of flaws in the fabric of space called topological defects, the researchers reported here on Saturday at a meeting of the American Physical Society.

Meléndez projected that Maria's damage to Puerto Rico's physical, social and economic fabric could result in as many as 200,000 migrants to the U.S. mainland over the next 12 months, with many of the new arrivals relocating to Florida, New York and New Jersey — all of which have existing large Puerto Rican communities.

Rather than treating space - time as an empty arena in which physical events unfold, Penrose postulates that objects called twistors build the fabric of space - time from the ground up.

As a yoga teacher, she encourages her students to cultivate an intimate relationship with their unique physical landscape to better understand the mental and emotional fabrics of their life experiences and how to reengineer a version of mind - body that supports lifelong playful movement and joyful living

Besides the physical features, these pants are made of our latest Supplex Fabric.

Break Types When the fabric of your pant leg is longer than your physical leg, pants fold or bend above the cuff.

Whatever your personal physical activity of choice is, you'll want clothes that flex with you and don't restrict your movement, so this section includes a lot of stretchy, lightweight fabrics that are perfect for exercising and playing.

Brantley called libraries an «internet of places,» where people can engage with physical objects while also being a part of a communication fabric.

However, as the fabric moves out of the way, there are no actual physical platforms behind them, so Yoshi's natural tendency is to fall off the level.

Like a sieve moving through every moment of every day, Barbara Campbell Thomas's paintings siphon the onslaught of words, text and images, sounds, textures and physical stuff into piecemeal orderings of stacked lines, quasi-geometric forms and blippy brush marks — all in concert with collaged pieces of thrifted fabric.

Through works that can be touched, inhaled, bathed in, played with and which enfold the visitor in biomorphic forms built of translucent fabrics, Neto defends an experiential art that combines physical experience with an intellectually rigorous examination of our environment.

In Lee Bontecou's mechanistic, protruding canvases or the enormous, graffiti - inspired fabric bundles of Shinique Smith, we witness the physical demands of sculpture — welding, carving, cutting, twisting, collaging, stitching, pouring, pulling, stuffing — none of it on a screen.

Buren's vertical stripes, made from paper, fabric, paint, or tape, have become his artistic signature, appearing in a variety of scales and forms in site - specific installations that reimagine the social and physical implications of architecture.

ROIL was an eight channel video projected onto fabric of monumental proportions that related to the space's historic function as well as related to the physical attributes of the interior.

But they are also dramaturgically charged links with the history of geometric art: Jospeh Beuys's work on the physical state of materials, Richard Serra's «splash» works, Blinky Palermo's use of fabrics and the seam, Bruce Nauman's work with solids and space, Isa Genzken's 1982 Weltempfänger (World Receiver), with its radio aerial set in a concrete cube.

While still retaining their Scandinavian minimalist appearance, the new works have been influenced by her time in Los Angeles, both in the physical fabrics — many of which were found in the downtown fashion district — as well as in the bright and natural aesthetic, inspired by time spent at Santa Monica beach.

Through paint, pixel, word, and fabric she creates work that functions as a bridge between the hypothetical and the physical, objects operate as artifacts of personal - as - political discovery formulated within a landscape balancing between nihilism and mysticism.

The sitters» identities are concealed by culturally significant fabrics in lieu of depicting the any physical likeness.

My minds eye tends towards extremes, which plays out in the physical realm with visions of padded cells made with all bumpy chunky soft white fabric and steel; or rooms filled with a cacophony of brash explosions and shards of pattern that vibrate and assault the senses.

Often puncturing the surface with stitching or padded strips of fabric, the eye teeters between physical elements attached to the front and ethereal washes of ink that recede backwards into the weave of the canvas.

The documentation of her process through physical objects continues upstairs in the vault gallery with silver gelatin prints of various worked fabrics, each a testament and witness to the invisible but powerful reality of creative energy.

Using everyday materials in unexpected ways, Baldock's work challenges the physical qualities of ceramic and fabric.

The Workshop documents the journey of a community of people from Israel to Venice, through a non-linear presentation of video, installation, sound and a physical intervention in the fabric of the Pavilion itself.

ArtPlace America (ArtPlace) is a ten - year collaboration among a number of foundations, federal agencies, and financial institutions that works to position arts and culture as a core sector of comprehensive community planning and development in order to help strengthen the social, physical, and economic fabric of communities.

Physical nature of his chosen materials — lightweight plaster mimicking steady concrete and soft fabrics erected as walls — respond to the conditions that are central in Mindiashvili's practice: transitional state of today's world in yet unknown present and fragility of all possible paradigms, notions or values.

Collaborative artist duo Roxy Topia and Paddy Gould fashion lively ceramics and fabric works which employ a playful aesthetic language of the grotesque utilising bodily functions and visceral or disquieting physical experiences.

The physical presence of her subjects emerges through layers of gel medium built up to give both the impression of bodies enveloped in fabric and three dimensionality to the pearls; in the same way nail varnish accentuates the fingertips.

Inspired by an observation by Michael Faraday (in a course of six lectures on the Chemical History of a Candle) in David Deutsch's book The Fabric of Reality that «there is no more open door by which you can enter into a study of natural philosophy than [by] considering the physical phenomena of a candle», Parreno's goal for the exhibition was to use its methods of display and artworks to explore the idea of light as an entity — one which alters what we see, and camouflages what we can not.

Directly confronting the emotional impact of violence against women, Emily Smith's paintings reveal the psychological and physical trauma of being attacked by a male stranger processed through paint, fabric, and memory.

Working with bamboo, chalk, fabric, glass, thread, wood, and paint, her sculptural and painterly language enfolds the visitor in a web of associations both physical and emotional.

There's been a long - running race between the potency of human beings and our awareness, but the fast - expanding «knowosphere» — the interlaced, light - speed, super-cheap fabric of information and discourse enveloping the physical planet — can propel awareness into the lead for good....

The greatest impediment to the Osgoode library's goal of fully integrating itself into the academic and social fabric of the law school was physical: Though the library was large and spread over five floors in the law school building, the entrance to the library was poky and hidden in a remote corner of the basement level.

DCFM is designed to unify management of data center fabrics from the storage ports on Brocade test directors and switches to Host bus Adaptors present on physical or virtual ports.

It's SO important to get physical swatches of the fabrics you're considering before placing your order.

The means of attaching kitchen chair cushions includes the ever famous strings, fitted elastic that holds to the seat of the kitchen chair, non-slip grip fabric that helps the cushion to remain in one location, slip covers or physical attachment with staples or upholstery tacks.