A description of Isabel's performance of a Rachmaninoff Prelude notes "the build-up, the chords, ranged, arranged, like a cathedral, mountains, elements / larger than us, in excess of what we are".
Volcanic gods are conceived of as dwelling within the mountain; their element is the subterranean fire that sets the mountain quaking.
> Juniperus excelsa subsp. excelsa is a major mountain forest element in the East Mediterranean Basin and sub-Mediterranean region.
Music and Dance BAY SHORE Boulton Center for the Performing Arts Donna the Buffalo, traditional mountain music with elements of Cajun, rock, folk, reggae and country.
Southeast Asia's landscape is characterized by three intermingled physical elements: mountain ranges, plains and plateaus, and water in the form of both shallow seas and extensive drainage systems.
We tried stag and wild boar at Les Trois Couronnes in Cauterets, and more garbure at L'Auberge des Pyrénées in Sainte-Marie-de-Campan (whose proprietors kindly took us in after we were forced down the mountain by the elements).
The association on the same site of four natural elements (mountain, tree, stone, and water) is supposed to constitute a sacred whole (a quarternity of perfection), a sacred landscape or "geography" similar to the world of the gods.
Hers is a directed but phenomenological process, in which forces of the natural world like gravity, entropy, the human heartbeat, and the fractal math of flocking birds, clouds, and mountain ridges are elements of both organizing and executing compositions.
Balke translates this sense into brutally pared-down paintings that meditate on a few recurring elements: mountains, coasts, sky, sea.
Having grown up on film sets – her father is producer Iain Smith (Cold Mountain, The Fifth Element, Mad Max, Fury Road) – Smith believed her business belonged in one place.
