Juan Sanchez's "I Am Ame/Rican" combines childhood photographs with the cartoon figure of Astroboy to symbolize transition from one culture to another.
Enough of these enormous steel tridents survived the terrorist attack of Sept. 11, 2001, that their silhouettes came to symbolize emergence from catastrophe.
The stadium will be called "Phoenix Stadium" to symbolize rising from the ashes that is the current state of Haiti.
This may be considered a way to make yourself spiritually prepared, or can symbolize detachment from valuable possessions.
During the early events of Halo 2, 'Vadumee serves as a messenger between the Hierarchs and the Elite Council, as he is seen relaying messages between the two parties in the Prophets' chamber; when the Elites split from the Covenant, 'Vadumee joins his brethren in fighting the Brutes, dropping the "-ee" suffix from his surname to symbolize his resignation from the Covenant.
Cornerstones symbolized "seeds" from which buildings would germinate and rise.
The original headgear of "Freedom," a cap symbolizing emancipation from slavery in classical antiquity, offended Davis, whose displeasure was relayed to the sculptor.
The Cretan bull dancer of ancient Mediterranean culture, playing with the animal by somersaulting over his back, expresses a conception of man's relation to this powerful animal and the forces of fecundity and death that it symbolizes different from that of the Spanish bullfighter who slays the beast.
The pill up at the top symbolizes hallucinations from drug ingestion.
This is the American dream, one that Norman Rockwell's Thanksgiving family symbolized: freedom from want, sharing a meal in a safe, warm home.
Their draped robes and jewelry symbolize their descent from the heavens "to save souls on earth," the historian Chang Qing writes in the catalog.
