Mr. Prentice's best work depends on the balance of opposing elements.
All marriages, she says, "are mixed marriages", and one of her favourite narrative ploys is to put two opposing elements – usually a prissily fastidious man and a scatty, demonstrative woman – together and chart the reaction as minutely as a chemist.
A strong case can be made for viewing such keys as more abstract representations of Porphyrian trees where brackets serve as "branches" of the "tree" and the binary oppositions are supplanted by a multitude of opposing elements in the system.
Unlike Vattimo's project of constructing meaning to overcome historical differences, Perniola's concept of transit into the space of difference is one of "art" in the sense of artifice or technique, and is not aimed at a synthesis or unification of opposing elements.
From the vibrating line extending the entire length of the upper part of the boat, and from its now being more tight than a harpstring, you would have thought the craft had two keels - one cleaving the water, the other the air - as the boat churned on through both opposing elements at once.
"It's a game of opposing elements," Pomet added.
Those juxtapositions, contradictions, dualities, and opposing elements fuel my work greatly.
Often there are opposing elements at work and these are visible in the image.
Now work and life are not opposing elements; instead, work is one element in a much larger life.
Let's start with the literal definition: The word balance implies harmony or equilibrium among opposing elements.
I am interested in mystery, and absurdity, and wonder, and I often juxtapose opposing elements and scenarios to warp and upend reality.
