As Kiyoshi "Kiyo" Izumi toured a select few of post-war Saskatchewan's aging mental hospitals, absorbing the wards' layouts and interviewing patients along the way, the Canadian architect grappled with hallmark features of the 1950s-era clinical milieu.
With every year that passes I am more and more puzzled - and dismayed - by the mental process of learning, absorbing, internalising and finally, speaking lines of dialogue.
Freed's recent thesis exhibition at Seattle's Photographic Center Northwest, Feeling Bad About Feeling Good About Feeling Bad, pulls from her obsessive need to make work as a distraction, helping her cope with everyday stressors she describes as "things that linger and absorb mental focus, time, and energy".
This threat had given me a new lease of mental life, and a way of absorbing the fun of playing.
The DJ is Sabine Wenzel, the director of the residential portion of the facility, and she defies all the Nurse Ratched, mental-hospital-overseer stereotypes by completely absorbing herself in the music and grooving energetically behind her mixing console.
He said he was doing a better job, finally, of absorbing the lessons from "The Mental ABCs of Pitching," by Harvey Dorfman, the definitive self-help guide for pitchers that was given to Burnett by a former Toronto teammate, Roy Halladay.
This will allow us to extend our mental horizons, and well be capable of appreciating and absorbing and communicating more of this exponentially expanding knowledge base.
I become completely absorbed in mental machinations as I attempt to defuse the ticking time-bomb of problems I perceive in my life.
We lessen our mental baggage as we practice letting go of what is not important and absorbing our pure heart in meditation and the heart of others in daily life.
There is absorbing information.
