materiality

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“There’s something that happens with real materiality, real construction, there’s an alchemy to it,” Hawley says.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026

It includes, or at least invites, us—drawing us into the scene as our gaze continues upward into celestial immateriality, all courtesy of the materiality of paint.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

In recent years, the centre has commissioned fourteen exhibitions by diverse international artists - including Adham Faramawy, Ntiense Eno-Amooquaye and Abi Palmer - which have explored themes from climate crisis to materiality.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2025

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

Hardly anything more powerful against the materiality of heat has been since adduced, hardly anything more conclusive in the way of establishing that heat is, what Rumford considered it to be, Motion.

From Little Masterpieces of Science: Invention and Discovery by Iles, George