In his new book, "Give a Man a Fish: Reflections on the New Politics of Distribution," Stanford University anthropologist James Ferguson examines cash transfers and other social welfare programs in southern Africa.
There is nothing to compare with the interplay of light, movement, sound, and sculptural imagery in great fountains, which combine the movement and sound of sheets, jets, and cataracts of water with richly imaginative sculpture, water plants and foliage, darting fish, reflections, and changing lights.
"Forget the herring and the salmon: I meant to go fishing for reflections, and come back with a glittering haul.
She said that she came by her scenic vision in a flash — when the hubcap on a car at her farm caught her eye with a fish-eye reflection of the surrounding, familiar countryside.
Infinitely more peaceable and domestic in tone are subsequent delightful depictions of a family of gibbons, forming a simian chain from a branch to try to fish out a reflection of the moon shining on the surface of the water, by Kokan Myoyo, (1653-1717), and of apes exploring a mist-enshrouded outcrop of rocks, by Mori Sosen (1747-1821).
Mr. Soo lives in a crowded Mott Street apartment where he keeps several mirrors by his tank, on the theory that as the fish attacks its own reflection, its mounting aggression will enlarge the horn.
Oliver's subtle provocations include constellation charts that replace stars with fur and forty-four phofos of enigmatic studio interiors, captured, fish-eye-like, as reflections in a silver teapot.
Measuring 6m x 7m, the tank's glass ceiling acts as the study's floor, from which Blanc's desk looks down on to fish, turtles, water plants and reflections of the tropical birds flying above.
Since the 1930s, studies have shown that fish will fight their own reflections.
The body is a pale brown or silvery brown colour, transitioning to white below, with green, mauve and rosy reflections when the fish is first removed from the water.
An occasional silver-grey fish noisily broke through the reflection of a tree, sending out a little circle of ripples and momentarily destroying this surreal image.
