Sentence examples for material metaphor from inspiring English sources

"The Material metaphor cuts through a lot of this – we say, 'what is this made of, what are some of the basic physics of this material?'," says Wiley. "What's nice about software is that it doesn't have to be completely constrained by real-world physics, but you do want to set up an environment where it's internally consistent".

The historical transformation of the connection between Diaspora community in India and China's Tibet informed my inquiry of different forms of sociality corresponding to their changing material metaphors.

Mr. Vidich, who created most of the 40 modular objects that populate his solo, uses the characters to suggest, according to the publicity materials, "metaphors for the perils of the production process".

It continued at Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia, where he mixed materials, metaphors and story lines, drawing all into a discussion of violence and suffering, love and redemption, race and class, art and life — in ways insightful and inspiring, playful and potent.

Junk predominates as both material and metaphor.

It reminds us that architecture arises from the ecotone between material and metaphor.

He is uniting material and metaphor with each turn of the screw.

The fabric has settled between the slabs like a ghost sinking into the earth, creating an uncanny collusion of language, material and metaphor.

(The first show, under way before the new leadership, was "Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art," in 2007. The third, "Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa," is to open next spring).

The exhibition Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa opened at the National Museum of African Art and Enid A. Haupt Garden, Smithsonian Institution, on Earth Day (April 22) 2013 and has been extended through February 23 , 2014

Also on view is the exhibition "Material as Metaphor," which features nearly a dozen artists exploring contemporary iterations of fiber art using materials such as vinyl, industrial felt and wire.