When Ketchum was eight, his ambition was "to become a scientist and help struggling humanity".
Colored with powdered oxides and fired in a kiln, they presented potent images of broken, struggling humanity.
By the early 1990s it had blossomed, according to Darryl Smith and Laurie Lazer of the Luggage Store, a San Francisco nonprofit gallery, to encompass artfully spray-painted portrayals of struggling humanity, like crawling, sad-eyed men.
In this nearly all-male world of camaraderie and gunsmoke, where little women bustle discreetly in the background (including Mary-Louise Parker as James's wife, Zee), the ways of the flesh, of heaving, stinking, struggling humanity, have little place.
But she has mostly failed to populate it with fully fleshed people, which means that Beckett's struggling humanity stands even less of a chance than usual of winning.
He told a packed audience on Thursday that he rejects the age-old notion of a "clash of civilizations" between Islam and the West, instead arguing that many of the struggles humanity faces today stem more from "a clash of ignorances" and an inability to recognize that diversity can often be "an opportunity" rather than "a burden" for societies.
Biblical themes have been used throughout history to share the universal struggle of humanity; temptation, rebellion, coming of age, the degradation of the moral compass, courage in the face of humanity, and of course, faith.
He added: "The track is basically about the struggle of humanity versus evil and the conclusion is the judgment of Lucifer".
The age-old struggle between humanity's higher and lower impulses is the subject of her very serious, very funny, very personal show, "Piece of Meat," which opened at 54 Below on Tuesday evening.
What saves Marable's Malcolm – and the Malcolm of Haley's autobiography – is the struggle towards humanity and the redemption he experiences on his journey; twists and turns recorded by Marable with the intensity of a fly-on-the-wall documentary.
