The bird was "sacred to the goddess Aphrodite," the exhibition label observes, without attempting to explore the metaphysics behind the formal symbol, let alone its emotional charge.
Electronic auteur Tom Jenkinson has always operated at the experimental fringes of dance music, so when he describes his latest record as attempting to explore "the hallucinatory, the nightmarish and the brutally visceral", it shouldn't be dismissed as idle talk.
The images were of little use to the small group of undergraduate students and their pioneering lecturer who, in early 1960s Lebanon, were radically attempting to explore new frontiers at the height of the international space race.
"In attempting to explore important issues about the rights of citizens and the role of the government in fighting terrorism, the Q&A program made an error in judgment in allowing Zaky Mallah to join the audience and ask a question," Richard Finlayson, the director of ABC television, said in a statement on Tuesday morning.
If we focus on the fact that Atticus is not as we would wish him to be, then we ignore the fact that Lee was attempting to explore the clash between the aged Atticus and his now adult daughter, Scout, who has returned from the wide world to Alabama.
I was in Kraków recently for a literary conference, and a young Polish critic was attempting to explore the contradistinctions, as he saw them, between the pressures and tensions that drive American poetry and those that lie behind the poetry of postwar Eastern Europe.
The film will also attempt to explore solutions to the problem.
The survey further attempted to explore differences between meteorologists specialising in climate science, and those who didn't.
During the 1960s Greek prose writers attempted to explore the historical factors underlying the contemporary social and political situation.
In these photos, I attempted to explore the aftermath of American occupation and the current challenges facing Iraq.
We then attempted to explore the mechanism underlying the proteolytic activation of calcineurin.
