Background became foreground; my view returned.
"The concern really was that there's a point where background becomes foreground," Mr. Godwin said.
Plan A — making babies with the tools you have around the house, as they say, the fun, free tools — faded into the background, and Plan B became foreground.
These shifts in perspective, occurring throughout cellular biology, can seem as dizzying as what happened in cosmology with the discovery that dark matter and dark energy make up most of the universe: Background suddenly becomes foreground and issues once thought settled are up in the air.
But there's going to be a huge change: people who are makers and want to make their own things and customise their own stuff will become the foreground," he says.
In several places, the background becomes the foreground, as small changes in drums, bass or percussion grab your attention.
After a sojourn in the desert, one listens to fast-flowing water differently: it becomes a foreground not a background sound, improbable and vital.
Climate serves as the always present background to what becomes the foreground focus for Watsuji, the study of Japanese ethics in practice and in theory.
The background becomes the foreground in this Chanel 2012 Spring/Summer runway, designed by Zaha Hadid.
