materiality

"What we're seeing is that brutal materiality is still important," says Alexander RE Taylor, senior lecturer in communications at the University of Exeter.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

The artist’s eponymous 2025 sculpture, crowned with an array of Bantu knots, ties the entire show together, joining materiality, traditional cultural identity, and the outward-looking nature of the exhibition in a single work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Alys and Helaena fulfill their truest purpose outside the confines of mind and materiality, using the heart tree of Harrenhal's godswood.

From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2024

Perhaps to amplify the difference between analog and digital, the show’s savvy installation goes all-in on emphatic materiality.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2023

Essences are refinements that lose some materiality; and as we struggle through the cold night of physics, matter will become vague, and melt into nothing under the microscope of Mind.

From The People's Idea of God Its Effect On Health And Christianity by Mary Baker Eddy

And napery, silver, iridescent glass, all the materialities, were well worthy of so pretty a floral setting.

From Captivating Mary Carstairs by Raymond Moreau Crosby

His clothes were a necessary envelope, to which he paid not the slightest attention, for his eyes looked too high among the clouds to concern themselves with such materialities.

From A Daughter of Eve by Honoré de Balzac

Abner accepted his environment; after all, he might force the conversation to soar far above the mere materialities.

From Under the Skylights by Henry Blake Fuller

There is something about an empty room, empty except of memories, but containing nothing besides, no materialities, no certainties as to the future, which is intimidating to one who stops and thinks.

From By the Light of the Soul A Novel by Harold M. Brett

What this country longs for is personalities, grand persons, to counteract its materialities.

From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes