become visual

Reflections become visual motifs, the lighting emphasizing the beautiful, lush Black skin tones and color palettes enriching the atmosphere with yellow hues deepening the connection to the loss of Emmett.

Part makeup studio and part anatomy lesson, H&MUA’s advanced Catrina class helps artists perfect the hyperreal skulls and skeletons that have become visual shorthand for Día de los Muertos.

In K-dramas, seeing someone head to the corner store during the workday, dressed in training-bok — as track suits are called — has become visual shorthand for “characters who are branded as losers, who haven’t gained financial independence from their parents or family or are somehow neglected by the dominant social group or discriminated against in society because of their failures,” Ms. Shin said.

Even contrived photos can become visual surprises.

With the exception of “It Takes Two,” stories and plots, while present, are left relatively open to interpretation, as the games seek not to become visual novels but to create a sense of negative space for the player to occupy.