It is tinged pink with animal blood, a reminder of the human sacrifices that once were required.
A glance across the border to Kosovo is a reminder of the human and financial cost that may follow if the peace agreement fails.
Touches like the corona's outer lattice serve as a reminder of the human work that has gone into the making of America.
The rest of Lassnig's face remains densely scaffolded and only partially complete, a reminder of the human form's always precarious and provisional status.
Meanwhile, Lumi's sporadic visual – and vocal – presence is a reminder of the human element in the midst of this kaleidoscopic chaos.
It's a big, whopping reminder that the human mind is continually trying to perceive things that aren't true, and not perceiving them takes enormous effort.
The collapse of an overpass in Belo Horizonte, killing two people, was a reminder of the human cost of a last-minute construction dash that also cost the lives of eight workers battling to get the stadiums finished in time.
Ultimately, though, it registers as a funny and oddly moving reminder of the human urge to portray transcendence, to achieve the mystical through the insistently material tools to which artists are limited.
Mak is better at pointing out the uncanny than at weaving together a coherent narrative, but his artful interleaving of personal stories with epic events is a constant reminder of the human scale of history.
It was a jolting reminder of the human consequences, shared by hundreds of British families, thousands of Americans, and millions of Iraqis, of the terrible misjudgment that Tony Blair made when he took Britain to war in 2003.
And those that reportedly came out of Madaya were the grimmest conceivable reminder of the human cost of the abyss into which this beautiful, once-flourishing region has fallen.
