Sentences with phrase «rooms as a metaphor»

Not exact matches

I do, of course, leave room for the use of literary techniques such as metaphor, hyperbole, and poetic imagery, and also allow for minor errors to have crept in through the process of copying manuscripts by hand over the centuries.

For example, using a Formula 1 pit crew as a metaphor for doctors in an emergency room has helped improve medical procedures.

What at first seems perhaps a meditation on the hidden rooms of the subconscious becomes quite literally a metaphor for the mother country by its final scenes, as the military tanks roll in.

Sex is a metaphor for every transaction, and we watch as DiCaprio repeatedly acts out his consummation of the deal in rooms full of voyeuristic traders, while some poor schnook on the other end of the line happily gets the shaft.

He writes «The Room,» a comically inept drama about a doomed relationship that acts as a thin metaphor for Wiseau's feelings about the world (Tommy is the hero, everyone else is the villain), finances it himself and casts himself as the lead.

In The Humming Room, Potter has taken the metaphor of wild, neglected garden as wild, neglected child and updated it for a new audience.Like Mary in The Secret Garden, Roo finds herself living with people she does not know, in a house that has many secrets.

To continue the living room metaphor, it is now dark, all of Chang's furniture back in place, candles flickering on the table, and you're listening intently as she solemnly spins the story further.

These works, like «Providence Spirits (Gold)» (2017), are the most lovely objects in the show and are meant to stand out as carry horses for the metaphor of wealth and the gap between the lives these heavily aestheticized and finely crafted paintings represent and the lives (alluded to in other rooms) that are deemed worth significantly less.

In a second room, two other figures composed of metal blocks pursue the robotic or prosthetic metaphor more obviously, as well as following more literally the Minimalist prescription of modular form.

The wall is part of an installation by the Whitney's David Kiehl that privileges interior spaces — as metaphor and as room for sculpture — but the photos suggest a greater continuity in Kusama's self - images and her art.

The claustrophobic quality of the room, closed in around the three figures, serves as a visual metaphor for their confined opportunities in life.

The dioramas depict contemporary sites as metaphors into modern - day conditions: a fast - food counter, a control room, a sport stadium, a security line.

The show will be organized around key themes in the artist's work, such as the «imaginary room» (a metaphor for the paranormal) and his fascination with utopian and fantastic architecture.

Thus a depiction of a normal children's room proves on closer inspection to be a place ravaged by solitude and destruction, a deserted ship's deck surrounded by a black sea as a metaphor of existential helplessness and abandonment.

One room plunges you into representations of «the river», which it seems to propose as an exclusively 20th - century metaphor for time.

A blown - glass sculpture in the form of a jar filled with puffballs of dandelion seeds was the silent still - point in the room, a stirring vision in white full of magic and mystery that struck me as the perfect, haunting metaphor for the Diaspora itself: people, dispersed, like so much blown dandelion fluff.

The entrance room houses the installation Spoiled Foot, which fills the space with a large, obstructing black and red mass hanging from the ceiling and which forces the public to walk in a narrow passage and brush against the side walls as a metaphor of the contrast between those who live at the margins and a centralized social power.

Montage, as a metaphor for rearrangement, remembering, and erasing, is also the poetic vehicle of Jonas's film Mirage (1976), a work originally designed for the screening room of Anthology Film Archives» previous incarnation on Wooster Street.

The second part is called In and Out of Love (Butterfly Paintings and Ashtrays), a room in which dead butterflies are stuck to canvases, with a table nearby, on which sits an ashtray and cigarette ends — an early example of Hirst's use of cigarettes as a metaphor for pleasure and death.

The metaphor here is a thermostat in a room, which has a set - point temperature, and continually makes adjustments as the actual room temperature deviates from that set point.

In my January moodboard post, I talked about how stripping a room down to its bare elements is sometimes the best way to remember where you're starting from and where you want to go (a nice little metaphor for life, too, as it turns out).