Flesh is one preoccupation, as evident in Susanna Starr's "Phantom Skin," a long, vertical structure of spongy, repetitive ridges (made by pouring acrylic paint in tones ranging from roseate to ashen gray onto synthetic sponges) that suggests the creases and folds of an aging body.
Montgomery has a fascination with the night sky, his preoccupation is evident in his older collage work which deals with outer space and fringe geography.
Her life's preoccupation would be evident to any visitor: several hundred sharpened pencils were arrayed, points up, in shoeboxes.
The book was so successful that Lamartine attempted to extend it two years later with his Nouvelles méditations poétiques and his Mort de Socrates, in which his preoccupation with metaphysics first became evident.
While the "opportunity costs" of the U.S. misadventure in Iraq have had a global impact, the most severe consequences of Washington's preoccupation with the Middle East may become evident next year in Asia.
Collins first mined the corruptions of Hollywood for material in Sunday Simmons and Charlie Brick (1971; reissued as The Hollywood Zoo [1975] and Sinners [1984]); her preoccupation with the entertainment industry was also evident in The World Is Full of Divorced Women (1975) and Lovers and Gamblers (1977).
The results of that stressful period are evident throughout the album: compared to the fanciful fantasy preoccupations of previous releases – especially the death and water fixations of Ceremonials – this is Welch facing up to reality, confronting her emotional demons in a frank manner.
"Parallel You," a duet from Nichole Canuso's "Faulty Lens," added an expressive context to the preoccupation with shape and space that was dryly evident in Ms. Canuso's opening "T43".
The fascination with language – a central preoccupation in almost all of Smith's stories – is evident here, and much of the playfulness and punning is left to a precocious nine-year-old girl called Brooke.
Spend any time playing Monument Valley and its preoccupation with aesthetics and encouraging a meditative mood are instantly evident.
