Examples of use of Eery
1. An eery quiet prevailed in Yangon, Myanmar‘s biggest city, where the junta has continued with a strong show of force.
2. First stop is Juodkrante, a famous resort between the wars, Neringa‘s second–largest town, with a bizarre sculpture park and eery wooden carvings at Witches Hill.
3. At the Royal Navy Portsmouth Historic Dockyard HMS Warrior was bathed in an eery glow, its masts towering on the skyline next to a huge bolt of white lightning.
4. And this is so even when his lens catches an Iraqi tank graveyard in Kuwait, the rusting hulks of oil tankers, the grey apartment blocks of the abandoned city of Priapat near Chernobyl, or perhaps the eery radiance of an illuminated Finnish greenhouse against a snowy background (see link). Arthus–Bertrand hopes that showing off the beauty of the planet will stir people to realise that it cannot and must not be damaged or destroyed.
5. And, for a magical moment, Trafalgar Square was full of arabesques and pirouettes – some, it has to be admitted, rather more rusty than others – all bathed in an eery light as ballet lovers and curious passers–by all took their turns at the DIY dance corps. scroll down for more The installation, Flock, was the creation of choreographer Top Sapsford, who knows Swan Lake from years of dancing in the Royal Ballet‘s version, and digital media artists KMA (also known as Kit Monkman and Tom Wexler). Their idea was to turn the square into an ‘enchanted space‘ where ‘ghostly projections‘ would create a magical ‘swan world‘. Vivienne Gaskin, until recently the ICA‘s director of performing arts and digital media, was inspired to stage the project after seeing KMA‘s piece entitled Eng–er–land, which flooded the stage with projections of a virtual city that shifted in response to the movements of dancers.