"Whether soaring high above the earth to take in a broad view, or flocking with other birds to achieve a common purpose, a bird in flight is the ultimate representation of freedom, hope and limitless possibility".
Our assignment was to create a representation of what we hoped our life would look like in the future.
Now that tall buildings are for the first time fragile in our memory and imagination, susceptible to a morning's doom, we fill them with feelings, and accept that they are representations of our hopes, rather than wrappers of our necessities.
Drimmit is a simple, straightforward online platform that allows users to create "dream boards" filled with visual representations of their hopes and aspirations.
This morning the New York Times had something sniffy to say: "Maybe some European or Asian societies are happy to rely on imported laborers with no right to vote, no representation or hope of equality, but that's not the American way, and must never be .Yet this has in fact been the American way for years, and in the absence of proper reform it will continue to be so.
Giordano's On the Way Up to Calvary provides a variation of the formula he devised for Las Meninas: here we have the painting of theology, just one of the combinations of representation with belief, hope, alienation and despair to be found in a city where art so often leaves you speculating beyond the point where words are of much help.
Even though it wasn't a faithful representation of Olympiad life, I hope that 'X+Y' inspires and encourages aspiring young mathematicians to pursue their interest to the highest level possible.
And if nothing else, an inevitable result of Clegg bringing the Lib Dems into government would be some move towards proportional representation, of which my fond hope is that it might restore some influence from voters on the detail of what our government imposes upon us.
After years of waiting for greater representation of Asian performers, I hope this wave launches a new era: when Asian Americans can step out of the supporting shadows and into the spotlight as stars.
In Butler's words, "certain kinds of efforts to restrict practices of representation in the hopes of reigning in the imaginary, controlling the phantasmatic, end up reproducing and proliferating the phantasmatic in inadvertent ways, indeed, in ways that contradict the intended purposes of the restrictions itself" (Butler 2000, 490).
