Mr. Gober's sculptures have always replicated things so common and generic that they are steeped in memory and weighted with sometimes unnerving cultural meaning, the more ambivalent the better: an empty wedding dress, a crib, wallpaper with the repeating pattern of a lynched black man and a sleeping white man, a single bright red Mary Jane shoe.
When you return to a grandparent's house or a former family home, the walls are steeped in memories: the architecture is burned into your muscle memory.
It is a young country, yearning for the settled unity of an England or a France, he writes in a voice that blends the acuity of Martha Gellhorn with the meditative grace of W.G. Sebald.Both accounts are steeped in memories of the second world war.
Do we opt for distraction from grief through busyness or do we allow ourselves to be steeped in memories and sadness?
NEW ORLEANS — Like the city it celebrates, the annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival is steeped in local memory.
It is steeped in vivid memories of New York City, and it is an exceptionally frank account of the challenges that she faced during her ascent from a public housing project to the court's marble palace on First Street.
(Since a scoring change in 2005, a perfect 10 no longer exists — today it's a lousy score — but Ms. Tucker is steeped in girlhood memories of watching Mary Lou Retton earn one in 1984 clinching the first ever women's all-around gold for the United States).
The first," among the last gasps of the master builder Robert Moses, "is steeped in its official memory, the business enterprise that lost money, overcharged exhibitors, offended the intellectual and aesthetic elite.
And while Aaron Copp's prismatic lighting does full justice to the lyrical aspects of a memory play, Mr. Mosher's production is steeped in a fine-grained psychological realism.
"Asphalt" is steeped in and establishes the primacy of the life of memory and of the spirit rather than the details of everyday life.
