Mr. Vormstein's feeling for slight, impoverished materials and his emphasis on drawing are shared with many of his contemporaries.
Clouds of electronically vaporized water wafting out of a metal tub are eventually supposed to harden the cement in bags nearby, an alchemy of impoverished materials.
In his cold-water loft on Fulton Street he set about a series of paintings made of exalted and impoverished materials: dirt, grass seed that sprouted and died, mould, clay, lead and gold.
If Dizzy seems impoverished by American material standards, within the spare environment in which he lounges he appears to be a spoiled brat.
But if past iterations of this overstuffed and featherbrained affair are any indication, the material will be impoverished.
"We are not pickers of garbage; we are pickers of recyclable materials," Tião, an impoverished Brazilian catadore, or trash picker, declares to a talk-show host in Lucy Walker's inspiring documentary "Waste Land".
Entrepreneurship matters especially for its potential to transform society.For centuries, the continent was impoverished by the extraction of raw materials by colonial powers.
Philip soon found more practical ways of venting his grief and proving his dedication to God, while also advancing the material interests of a realm that was impoverished by long years of warfare.
The concept of microfinance, which first took off in the 1970's in Bangladesh, has gathered force throughout the developing world, giving impoverished people the capital they need to start small businesses and buy materials.
The drug trade here is lucrative, and Sergeant Somsak said many families in otherwise impoverished areas have brand-new pickup trucks and nicely furnished houses made of sturdy materials.
