Using a program she wrote, Ms. Shor created a composite image in which randomly changing pixels from pictures of herself and about 40 relatives and friends combine into a shimmering, constantly shifting single portrait.
Dramatic oratorio, musical drama, opera vérité or some new synthesis, performed against a stark backdrop of shifting photo portraits, the collaboration by the award-winning composer Christopher Theofanidis and the librettist Leah Lax, a Houston writer, drew standing ovations and bravos at its two performances on Saturday.
Or, at least that's the message behind Hailey Gaiser's color-shifting, culture-shifting portraits, which depict real people and their infinite power.
And yet, Resnais is also satisfied to simply play maestro to a sophisticated, time-shifting portrait of illusory wealth and its elegiac side effects.
That allowed the Obama campaign not only to alter the very nature of the electorate, making it younger and less white, but also to create a portrait of shifting voter allegiances.
The Castle of Otranto is widely regarded as the first Gothic novel, and, with its knights, villains, wronged maidens, haunted corridors and things that go bump in the night, is the spiritual godfather of Frankenstein and Dracula, the creaking floorboards of Edgar Allan Poe and the shifting stairs and walking portraits of Harry Potter's Hogwarts.
In his expansive retrospective spanning 35 years of work, Kerry James Marshall's paintings range from urban pastorals to Renaissance-inspired portraits, subtly shifting abstractions to romanticized, domestic interiors.
Weaving together history, diplomacy, and vivid personal narratives from his overland journey across Eurasia from Baku to Samarkand, Vladivostok to Beijing, Bruno Maçães provides a fascinating portrait of the shifting borderlands between Europe and Asia, tracking the economic integration of the two continents into a new supercontinent: Eurasia.
A friend out in cyberspace, if he's reading this, will catch my wink as I say that I'm reading & 8220The World of Yesterday,& 8221 the posthumously published autobiography& 8211or self-portrait in a shifting cultural landscape& 8211of Stefan Zweig (1881-1942), an exemplary man of letters in the traditional sense.
