In the Tivoli landscape, though, he fudges details and goes for something looser and realer: the enveloping illusion of a landscape, grass-scented, hazed in humidity, tinted a pre-storm green-gray.
I chanced across one example during a studio trek in the work of a young artist named Matt Richard, who had turned his closet-size room-within-a-room space into an enveloping Day-Glo green landscape of tiny plastic figures and trees, which he uses as source material for YouTube videos.
The landscape enveloped me, as Betchkal said it would, and I felt I was the landscape, where mountains and glaciers rose and shifted eons before the first heartbeats came to life.
The album was described by critics as tunes placed in "a stark landscape, enveloped by rustling percussion and reverberant drones" with tones and lyrics that were more optimistic than prior albums.
Layers of echoing guitars and whirring, swooping synthesizers make the music shimmer like an Impressionist landscape, edgeless and enveloping.
Dozens of these devices will play live, recorded and computer-routed violin compositions by Mr. Bird, creating an enveloping aural and visual indoor landscape.
The pavement of the Chiayi Station's front plaza reflects the natural landscape of the clouds enveloping Ah-Li Mountain. Ah-Li Mountain
In Inness's late paintings this idea is illustrated by an increasing indistinctness and enveloping ethereality in the portrayal of landscapes and even figures.
Watching widescreen video in landscape mode does seem more enveloping.
The artificial quality of the light illuminating this night scene along with the enveloping sense of threat recalls the elaborately staged and spectral landscapes in the work of the contemporary photographer Gregory Crewdson, whose influences include the filmmakers David Lynch and Steven Spielberg.
