The streets are deserted, missing posters lining
the walls of abandoned buildings, and everyone we see trembles at the thought of making a sound.
Not exact matches
Too many
of the most favored and powerful have
abandoned the Puritan ideal
of the «city
built on a hill» (language to which Ronald Reagan once appealed) and aspire to living in a mansion behind
walls, where they can act out the anarchic fantasy
of doing what pleases them.
In particular Vanier brings out the profound sadness
of Jesus as, through fear and a closed mentality, people
build up their own
walls that destroy trust in him or put up their own barriers to shut out love: in his description
of the washing
of the feet, Vanier looks at Peter who does not understand weakness until he is filled with the Holy Spirit, Judas who can not tolerate love and kindness, and John who eventually
abandons himself to Jesus and knows he is loved by him.
There's a moment early in the seventh and final season
of True Blood when Jason Stackhouse (Ryan Kwanten) looks at the writing on the
wall — literally words written on a
wall, spray - painted to the side
of a
building in a neighboring town which has been all but
abandoned.
During the US invasion in the late 1980s, this area was heavily hit and many
of the
buildings were
abandoned with bullet holes peppered across the
walls.
The film / book follows a narrative
of a failed love story, involving a woman who had recently
abandoned the narrator and left him with the landscape photographs lacking his presence and the presence
of the notorious Israeli
built Wall in the West Bank, an absence which echoes the atmosphere conjured by these images.
Some
of his best - known projects involved laboriously cutting holes in the floors or
walls of abandoned or soon - to - be-demolished
buildings or, as with Splitting (1974), meticulously slicing a house in two.
★ Diana Thater: «Chernobyl» (closes on Saturday) In this four -
walled video projection, the viewer is immersed in layered, shifting images
of the decaying
buildings, rusting rubble and overgrown fields in and around Prypiat, a Ukrainian city
built in the early 1970s for workers at the Chernobyl reactor and hastily
abandoned after the reactor's nuclear meltdown in 1986.
Ever in search
of dissonant juxtapositions and interesting details, Buer captures the poetry
of imperfection in the graffiti marred
walls of abandoned factories, and in the permanent vacancy
of old
buildings overgrown and dispossessed by the progress
of nature.
Instead, their main subjects consist
of empty rusting oil barrels, derelict
buildings and
walls, tires,
abandoned cars; a junkyard utopia.
To complement the exhibition and extend it beyond the
walls of the galleries, Thomas will create an interpretive public art video installation to be projected on an
abandoned building in the neighborhood.