To build the furniture and fixtures, Icrave collected raw materials from thrift shops, flea markets, online sellers and curbside trash.
The collected raw materials and those purchased on the market were used to test different manual properties of the black pigments, such as compatibility with inorganic and organic media, compatibility with the support, hiding power, tinting strength, workability with a brush and permanence in air and sunlight within a semi-confined environment, protected from the action of rainfall.
The strategy would be to create nanofactories or "auto-assemblers" the size of cells, which would be programmed to collect raw material from the natural world (atoms, molecules) and convert it (slowly, piece by piece) into the building blocks of the desired product.
To manufacture the projectile tips, early humans must have collected raw rock materials, gathered wood for burning, known how to heat-treat the silcrete, prepare and trim the blades, and finally attach them to arrows and spears.
Like her predecessor, Ms. Martin collects raw visual material in the field, then selects and manipulates individual images in unorthodox ways to suit her aesthetic purposes.
The scientists first collected this raw material from a Portuguese coffee roasting company and dried it.
The richness of shell types that were collected as raw material correlates to greater exploitation of edible marine shellfish and greater occupation intensity.
Wheat straw was collected as raw material and a representative sample was made by mixing 16 different freeze dried and milled samples of wheat straw in the same ratio.
At the time he estimated that it would take five years to collect the raw material and perhaps another five to compile and publish the words and definitions.
The co-op can rely on an industrial producer a so-called "grease puller"—driving a lorry around the area's restaurants to collect its raw material free.
