Word: symbolic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...images are obvious: sun, moon, animals, plants such as squash blossoms. But just as surely as in 17th century Dutch painting, every object is a symbol too. Like Native Americans themselves, jewelry fanciers feel power in a massive Navajo turquoise bracelet, transcendence in a kachina, or spirit, figure. The entire craft is devoted to good luck...
...Well, I'm a Christian and the birds are a powerful Christian symbol. Sometimes I use the birds to represent innocence. When people are killing and in war there are always innocent people being killed. And also I like to use the pigeon to represent the presence of spiritual things...
When I was young, I always got the impression from the Bible or from paintings in church ... I was always impressed by the pigeon as a symbol of peace and love. I like to put some Bible imagery in my movies...
...possible to condemn or give compassion to these deaths (although the corruption itself must be abhorred). These suicides can only stand as the blood on the wall--the symbol of the intrigue which had taken root...
...winds of fortune blow kindly, Raul Gardini will be remembered as a shining symbol of his age, a captain of industry and a world-class sailor who piloted both his companies and his million-dollar yachts with joyous abandon. He worked hard for 60 years to cultivate that image, in a land where myths ripen richly and image often counts more than fact...