Word: foregrounded
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...technique is a modernization of the classic optical illustration developed by Edgar Rubin in which viewers see either a vase or two faces depending on how they direct their attention. The viewers perceive one of the two patches as being in the foreground and the other as being in the background by choosing where to direct their attention...
...stark as this line. The work is essentially a symphony on the theme of these words. The nameless Son is a humdrum high school student when he accidentally runs over his nine year old sister with a car. He is plucked out of obscurity to occupy the foreground of a blood red stage, where he speaks for two hours on the topic of his sister, his family and his dissatisfaction with life in general, interrupted sporadically by dialogue largely vacant of meaning. The figure of the Daughter haunts the Son, often twinning his gestures or acting out key moments...
Martin said the song's surreal lyrics do, however, contain psychedelic images. Martin also said the spiky, leafed plants in the foreground album's cover are not marijuana leaves, as rumored among some fans...
...Throughout the book secondary characters' faces are cropped out or obscured by foreground objects...
...going to damn well enjoy whatever it is I finally settle on. The fact is this: Life is too short not to be enjoying what you're doing. Allow me to bust a little Landmarks of World Architecture on you. The Harvard Mentality suggests the Japanese aesthetic of a foreground, middle ground and background. But there is no transitory material between. We are forever imagining what that distant vista would be like to experience for ourselves, but we must focus on the here and now, and how that may be able to help us in the immediate future, forever deferring...