Sentences with phrase «process of decay»

Organic acids such as humic and fulvic acid are some of the components resulting from this natural process of decay of plant and animal matter.

In the future our own artefacts will be just as charged and curious Weber seems to suggest — part of another natural process of decay.

Even in the Easter affirmation of the Resurrection of Jesus, so important for Christianity, we can now point to no firm historical evidence to show that there occurred there a miracle which involved suspension or reversal of natural laws — in this case, the normal processes of decay into which the physical body enters after the point of death.

The body produces amyloid plaques and then eliminates them in a normal biological process of decay and renewal.

Corrosion — a slow process of decay.

Your eyesight starts changing and you start the long process of decay that eventually ends in death.

Instead it has been ignored and allowed to begin a gentle process of decay, used casually by local people for walking their dogs, rollerblading and the occasional sport event or rock concert.

Partner: Turner Contemporary Exhibition dates: 10 October — 18 November 2012 UCA Graduate 2012 Traces, search 2012 Single screen projection, HD video, black and white, 9 mins10 secs Karen Crosby's work explores the ghostly atmosphere of abandoned old buildings at Snodland Paper Mill, the entropic process of decay, disappearance and the encroachment of nature.

Her organic works in particular have changed dramatically from when they were first exhibited, making visible processes of decay and putrefaction like a contemporary memento mori, recording the passage of time and repudiating the notion of a permanent artwork.

By doing very little - lifting clods, melting sugar, stringing apples - she suggests another history underlying all histories: an anti-historic process of decay, of dust going back to dust Another room contains a work called Out of the Blue, made of lint from the cloth factories of Prato which Gallaccio has rolled into vast, 10 - foot menhirs.

Winters's sculptural paintings with hand - crafted float frames depict characters undergoing processes of decay, their faces being consumed by plants and fungi.

By manipulating the wood and other objects to weather and age them, Drew reminds the viewer of time's passing and the natural processes of decay and regeneration.

Elsewhere Nietzsche says that the process of decay that had begun with the death of Jesus was concluded by Paul, who used «the cynical logic of a rabbi.»

Mr. Toynbee is probably oversimplfying when he says that their primary intent is to arrest the process of decay of civilization while trying to show that certain selected elements of the civilization are essential to perfection.

«These could help us understand more about the process of decay and preservation of biomolecules, which is a bit of a black box right now,» Manning says.

It would be a nice irony if the pleasures of old - school cinema - going did not themselves succumb to that process of decay.

Drew reminds the viewer of time's passing and the natural processes of decay and regeneration.

Her piece recreates one leaf in bronze, capturing it in the process of decay and alluding to the suspension of time.

With many of the buildings in the country in the process of decay, Cuban architecture serves as an inspiration and starting point for many Cuban artists.

Highlighting the natural process of decay, McClaren's artworks reference the tension between the human need to control the environment and the wild forces of nature.

Her recent work focuses on the process of decay in nature and also the wearing of layered surfaces over time.

The artists initially consider the process of decay because, as they state, «it is a very intense vision of the world... the true essence of things can be found in decay, in everything that has been rejected, in junk, in rubbish.

Across the booth, large - scale black - and - white photographs of an aging male body, cropped to focus on different areas, double as a gripping icons for the passage of time and the process of decay.

Works seem to be in the process of decay or irreversible (perhaps dangerous) change.

Gathering inspiration from the local landscape, he recreates surfaces that suggest a process of decay, transformation and renewal.

In a meticulous model of recycling, Rodriguez transforms the process of decay for waste materials, namely...

Whereas Damien Hirst's fish preserved in formaldehyde and Marc Quinn's blood frozen in refrigerated tanks arrest the processes of decay, Gallaccio's works, like memento mori, remind viewers that death is part of life.

Simply speaking, volcanoes helped form the atmosphere while living organisms have helped shape the atmosphere to their liking in two ways: firstly by warming the planet to a liveable temperature by producing methane and carbon dioxide during the process of decay of dead matter, and secondly by creating oxygen through the process of photosynthesis by our green friends in the plant kingdom.