Sentence examples for found material in from inspiring English sources

"Experts have found material in the disaster area that were not part of the plane," a source said.

A law enforcement official said the federal investigation began when Baltimore County Police Department detectives conducting the homicide investigation found material in the hotel room.

The only art in conventional form is a series of funky little sculptural guns, which he made in collaboration with the artist Angel Toxqui from found material in Mexico City.

Together they also found material in the ancient Mayan "Popul Vuh"; the Hawaiian "Kumulipo"; Bantu, Bulu and Zuni creation stories; works by the Persian poet Rumi; and quotations from Japanese Noh plays and haiku.

Much as collagists have done since Braque and Picasso started cutting up daily papers, Mr. Mekas is performing an aesthetic intervention here: he has appropriated found material, in this case news reports shot off his home television, to his own deeply personal ends.

Art, as Mr. Byrne sees it, can "filter real stuff or present it from a particular angle so it appears to function like a metaphor for something else"; and he's frequently used bits of reality as found material in his work: the song "Once in a Lifetime" grew out of preachers' sermons he'd heard on the radio; just as the people in "True Stories" have real-life antecedents in newspaper stories.

Combining found materials in collages was not new with Rauschenberg, either.

She also uses a lot of found materials in her work, such as her driftwood chairs.

As a student he found materials in his college library, at times, to be significantly out of date.

Like the others, it evolved from found materials in response to the obstructing challenges that the marble fireplaces and moldings presented.

Simon Rodia was not a "gentrifier", but an Italian immigrant who in the 1920s started to build a set of fantastical towers out of wire and glass and found materials in Watts.