A cold, penetrating rain fell in sheets, the fluid backdrop to the dimly-lit Taraval Muni Station that he trekked through during a February Bay Area winter monsoon- on what might become his path to salvation.
These bits and pieces of objects, punctuated by a painted eyeball here, a peacock feather there, are laboriously integrated into a fluid backdrop of color applied by brush or aerosol.
In the first of his three pieces, Mr. Hopson played a fluid saxophone line against a backdrop of electronic squawks and screeches reminiscent of the sounds of electronic antiquity (that is, the experiments of the 1950's).
Performed against the backdrop of a sylvan wood, this fluid, delicate duet portrays an encounter between creatures who are human and feral, mythological and alive.
Evocative backdrops, moody set lighting, and Jonathan Demme's fluid camerawork only add to the experience.
Evocative backdrops, moody set lighting, and Jonathan Demme's fluid camerawork add to the experience.
And now, unable to learn my lesson, I'm writing my David Peace-style, gritty Northern novel about Satanic abuse set in St Helens in the mid-80s, against the backdrop of pit closures, Slayer cassettes and lighter fluid abuse.
The confused series of events that led to today's panicked retreat revealed, if for only a moment, the fluid allegiances and conflicting loyalties that very likely will form the backdrop of any Afghan government that succeeds the Taliban.
Mr. Hytner's impressively fluid staging places the cast in evocative period costumes (by Bob Crowley) against the backdrops of spare, modern-looking sets (also by Mr. Crowley).
Models who are transgender, intersex, gender fluid, and a variety of other different identities pose in front of brightly-colored backdrops, looking defiantly into the camera and presenting themselves the way they want to be represented.
Coating her catwalk with colorful carpets and crafting her backdrop out of a desert tent, she transported the audience away into a world of fluid frocks and easy coats.
