That’s essentially the idea behind the storytelling trope known as “dark reflection,” a narrative device that goes beyond the ...

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I was only an 11-year-old child when I first stumbled upon Viktor E. Frankl’s book, Man's Search for Meaning, although the first edition of the same book in my native language was titled, And Why Didn ...

One word has many meanings in the new Disney Pixar film "Soul," which is both a celebration of African American culture and a reflection on the meaning of life. It features the first black lead ...

Meaning in Motion, a solo exhibition by Houston artist Pablo Gimenez Zapiola, is part of Spacetaker's Artist Resource Center (ARC) Exhibition Series. Through large-scale projections of words, literary ...

Always the need has been to stay in the concrete, the practical, the everyday, so as to find hints of the invisible through the visible. The infinite levels in Shakespeare, for instance, make his ...

A mirror might look silver because it's usually depicted that way in books or movies. However, it's actually the color of whatever is reflected onto it. A perfect mirror has specular reflection, ...

'The Christian faith presents Jesus Christ as the perfect example of what it means to live and what it takes to be fully alive' We will all die. That’s for certain. Perhaps it can be said that death ...