The problem is not fantasy but allegory, which exists to literalize and simplify. |
The result is a series of ghostly, uncanny dialogues that manage to literalize the mysterious force — part guide, part confessor — with which Heti feels herself to be in communion while she is writing. |
Fitting music to verse can be tricky territory: if you literalize a poem with musical gestures, you may be taking away its mysteries and killing it. |
As if to literalize the longing of the title, a breathtakingly extended axle-like element joins a towering wheel to a tall woven hive shape. |
Acting on behalf of all the invisible foot soldiers of institutional accountability, he tried to literalize the fantasy that experience can be reproduced. |
When using more than one color, he applied each to a separate, abutted panel, in diptychs and triptychs, to literalize their division. |