I explained to her that if the visual parts of the brain are deprived of actual input, they are hungry for stimulation and may concoct images of their own.
Concocting images of isolated pain and an ethereal sadness into haunting depictions of young western men, 非 reveals a mystified insight into the depths of the Japanese psyche.
It remains to be seen how the Prime Minister, who has concocted an image of himself as a centrist and a consensus builder, will deal with such lighting-rod issues as immigration reform, rising housing costs and housing shortages, and the perennial Conservative-versus-Labour battle over the National Health Service.
Messner discounts the theory that the yeti is an archetypal image concocted by the collective unconscious.
"The In/visible Cities," in which contemporary artists concoct visionary images of unrealizable cities, based on Italo Calvino's book of that name, at the Palazzo dell'Arte Triennale, 6 via le Alemagna, 39-022) 7243-4240, www.triennale.it, runs through March 9. Closed Monday; $7.50.
While certain Type-A, obsessive personalities like myself want to plan everything out, write out schedules, and concoct these images of what we believe is the "best," often what we believe is right is not always what is suitable.
It was like she was saying, 'Well, fuck you.' " The "Disaster" series, as this work has come to be called, occupied her from 1987 to 1989, and included some amazingly revolting images concocted from fake body parts, spilled and rotting food, and anatomically rearranged dolls.
People seem to like the mixes of sentimental favorites or jazz classics or one-hit wonders, even if they are concocted to convey the image of the stores that sell them.
"I became nothing but a hostage to the 'demonic image' first concocted in a book of a certain unscrupulous scribbler, and then repeated on the silver screen," the note said.
Early in March he lamented that others were concocting a "demonic image" of him.
Demos does concede that the clear lesson from companies' attempts at rebranding is that they tend to work only when the branding reflects underlying reality.So unless the government can concoct a new image that accurately reflects the best of modern Britain, its rebranding campaign will achieve little more than lining the pockets of the advertising and public-relations industry.
