Perhaps more than an amalgam of different kinds of elements - the real, the projected, the fragmentary - this is less about sculpture or formal elements than a state of mind.
Bubbles might best be compared to The Arcades Project, the massive fragmentary book in which Walter Benjamin tried to crystallise the history of capitalism in the image of Parisian glass arcades.
It aims at organising diverse, often fragmentary, evidence and identifying potential project-related health impacts and underlying data gaps.
I felt that I could go anywhere with such an open-ended story, and that almost anything could be projected on to the fragmentary but lurid details of Bella's possible background and macabre death.
In 1904, he went to Scotland with a very particular vacation project in mind to decipher the fragmentary letters scratched on a piece of lead that had been found among the Roman remains in the city of Bath, in southwestern England.
Moreover, data on implementation projects is still disseminated and fragmentary.
Especially when seen projected in 70 millimeter, the fragmentary scenes and the unusually crisp, saturated image can produce, as Mr. Anderson put it, "that hyperrealistic thing that happens sometimes when you dream".
He ranges from big themes (time, space, isolation, silence and fear) to the smallest of anxieties – "the silence of the unsent text message", for example – with a relentlessness that reminds one sometimes of Geoff Dyer's omnivorous musings on photography, and at other times of Walter Benjamin, who had a similar habit of fragmentary musing that had the effect of obscuring a bigger project.
Tragically, he was killed in a car accident in the middle of the project, and in 1963 his work was shown in fragmentary form, with still photographs and narration substituting for the ocean-liner sequences.
Haphazard and fragmentary, the recordings were made as part of his final undergraduate project at Harvard, and they strike the one note of un-uptight lunacy in this promising, if maybe slightly old-before-its-time, lineup.
The power of the SPF method was in its compensation for fragmentary connectivity data, as the top ranked regulatory links would be projected on the rest of the gene cluster.
