Sentences with word «rootlessness»

When Kirsten Stoltmannn leaves chrome tumbleweed on a rug, it makes a lovely gathering point for sculpture, household objects, the dry rootlessness of desert plants, and the myth of the West.

«What makes «The Sea is the Limit» a unique exhibition is the fact that each participating artist has been addressing the theme of refugees and engaging with migration, immigration, dispossession and rootlessness for some years, and in some cases, for example as in the case of the renown Irish artist Brian Maguire, for some decades.

A Map of Home — the title suggests many themes, from rootlessness to the search for home to belonging to many countries — would you speak a bit about the importance of place in your writing?

Instead, ideas about rootlessness and belonging, states of limbo and states of grace, pervade the array of paintings, prints, sculptures, films and installations by the four shortlisted artists: Hurvin Anderson, Andrea Büttner, Lubaina Himid and Rosalind Nashashibi.

But of course, Waugh's novels» popularity with the public comes not from their connection with «real life» (whatever that is) but from their astonishing evocative power, itself deeply rooted in the author's essential rootlessness.

But modernization based on a mechanical world - view, atomizes society to permit the emergence of the individual who soon becomes rootless and a law unto itself; and since rootlessness is unbearable for long, the pendulum swings to a collectivism which is a mechanical bundling together of atomized individuals into an equally rootless mass under mechanical state control.9

Such rootlessness protects its subject from human demands even as it exposes him to the pains of homelessness.

Satisfaction of this need is particularly crucial in our fragmented, transient, urban society where rootlessness and loneliness are epidemic.

Having planted «a Hispanic garden in a foreign land,» away from her native Cuba, she values what she calls the flowers of faith — family commitment, and strength to struggle in her mother's «bouquet» which help her combat rootlessness.

They also represent some of the toughest challenges to the tenets of Catholicism today, from sexual rootlessness and ingrained racism through to the morality of war and the consolations of money.

Netflix has driven the prestige - TV era toward perilous new heights of geographical rootlessness and rampant binge - watching, and is now threatening to do the same to movies.

In truth, the rewards of absolute rootlessness are fleeting, and over time the strain begins to show.

For him and for the artists in Dadaglobe, was rootlessness never far from the order?

Both familiar and strange, Doig's pictures prompt a sense of dislocation in the viewer, which may owe something to his own rootlessness.

What forms is a psychological rootlessness, tethered by concrete detail.

All of this is contained in the notion of decorative delirium, the tenor of which has to do partly with the violent rootlessness and mutability associated with the intensified complexity of the work.

Having lived on three continents by the age of 12, her work explores rootlessness, belonging, identity, and our shared human experience.

Nevertheless, they do not fall into the romantic idea of nomadism, jet set rootlessness, or deterritorialized privileged immigrant.

Demonstrating the importance of the exhibition, contemporary artist and curator of the show Varvara Shavrova (USSR / Ireland / UK) notes: «What makes The Sea is the Limit a unique exhibition is the fact that each participating artist has been engaging with migration, immigration, dispossession and rootlessness for some years... Another strength lies in the fact that most participating artists, including myself, are migrants.»

The four artists shortlisted this year tackle ideas about rootlessness and belonging in a series of understated works

There is always transiency and rootlessness, «the cares of the world and the delight in riches» to stifle fruitage.

Mobility, loneliness, rootlessness and many other factors take a daily toll.

In relating this saga to the contemporary situation we can immediately see its christological relevance for such social issues as capital punishment and for such enduring psychic realities as the inner torment and rootlessness that sin fosters.

The claim and call to apostolicity is posited of the church over-against the realities of arbitrariness and rootlessness that have often revealed themselves in Christian history.

Many students of our culture have pointed to the rootlessness and aloneness of contemporary families.

Many factors in our society militate against depth relationships — the frenzied pace of our lives; the frantic pressures to get ahead which encourage using rather than relating to people; the constant mobility of many families which contributes to a rootlessness and noninvolvement in community life; the anonymity of megalopolis where people do not know the names of even those in adjoining apartments.

In addition, an adoptive child may feel out - of - touch with his heritage, leading to a sense of rootlessness.

Cameron will argue many young men have been drawn to extremism due to a rootlessness created by the weakening of a clear collective British cultural identity.

It's also one of the great movies of the year - an ambitious, challenging, and creatively hot - blooded but cool toned project that picks seriously at knotty ideas about American personality, success, rootlessness, master - disciple dynamics, and father - son mutually assured destruction.

Boneshaker focuses on the feelings of homelessness, landlessness, and rootlessness that accompany immigration.

A noir sitcom that captures perfectly the rootlessness of today's millennial generation and one of the funniest, smartest programs of the last year, Search Party has finally made it to Australian free - to - air television.

Here, too, there are remnants of ghost and fairy tales, but blended with a realist family story: the three central characters fight feelings of rootlessness by committing to this one flawed place.

There was a time when this description of a Tourist, the rootlessness and the danger, would have excited me.

It's a world without roots, carrying within it all the pros and cons this suggests, and until the recent birth of my daughter, I felt very much tied to the rootlessness of the expat.

I grew up the daughter of parents who'd experienced a lot of rootlessness.

This creates a sense of rootlessness, Yan told the Vancouver Sun, in which many of those who work and want to raise families end up moving out of the city.

Rootlessness is a state endemic to many in our time: it is a poignant and moving experience to see this ever - increasing condition explored by an artist of this caliber.

«When one looks at Lewis's abstract painting of this era... especially «Too Much Aspiration,» there is a feeling of «rootlessness» as if... Lewis is signifying that there is really no place in America for a Negro with «too much aspiration.»»

Its begs critical questions, too, about the art world — from the spread of galleries beyond Chelsea to decentralization as one more mirror in art of «the free market,» from the rootlessness of oversized art fairs struggling to top the Armory Show or Pulse and Volta to the cold hard fact of the Brooklyn Museum as itself another powerful institution.

His photo of a house brought in one piece to suburbia seems torn between assertions of rootlessness and home.