Just as a novelist gets to know his or her characters, a biographer gets to know his, too, and, in the face of the sprawling chaos of an entire life, knows that whatever he can tell about the subject is only a small selection that fits a narrative chosen according to his own tastes and interests.
As the sprawling chaos of Brexit grips the national psyche, the far-right is on the rise in Britain; its influence growing, its rhetoric festering.
Before him lies the neatly levelled land on the US side of the border fence; beyond, to the south, is sprawl, chaos, uncertainty: Tijuana.
Not the facilities — they're all right, pleasanter and more navigable than the sprawling, Mumbai-like chaos of New York's.
Through Oct. 11 With Jason Rhoades, Tomoko Takahashi, Sarah Sze and other younger artists specializing in sprawling installations in which planned chaos reigns, you would think that Judy Pfaff would get more respect.
But the system wasn't ready when it launched districtwide in August, and it caused chaos across the sprawling district of about 600,000 students.
Bumping into this limitations was the point, but it means days, months, and years toiling away at big ideas like the old version of Total Chaos in a sprawling open world that eventually proved untenable.
The grounds feature more than 80 other works of art, some of which have been recently installed like Margaret Evangeline's "Gunshot Landscape" (2004): a suspended, bullet-riddled, rectangular sheet of highly reflective metal that, in these woods, made me think of some future, alternative world, where this pristine land would forever be changed by suburban sprawl and chaos.
Last Chance 'The Bad and the Better' (closes on Saturday) The maximalist chaos merchants the Amoralists swing uptown for Derek Ahonen's sprawling neo-noir tale of betrayals, dangerous dames and terrorist plots.
Chaos theory Tomoko Takahashi's best known work is the huge, sprawling installation which filled part of the Saatchi Gallery in the New Neurotic Realism show last year.
At first glance, the Schubert feat seemed ill-advised: the C-Minor and A-Major Sonatas are both sprawling, at times dizzying pieces, their lyric outpourings set amid intimations of chaos and collapse.
