Giuseppe Luciani for example, uses oil on canvas to encapsulate the mundane views of backyards and buildings outside his Brooklyn apartment; his tough little compositions broadcast radiant color and brusque surfaces.
Developed as his thesis project at the San Francisco Academy of Art University, Turn to the Future is an horizontally rotating apartment building that combats obstructed windows and mundane views with a 360-degree, twenty-seven story vista.
"From the point of view of the science-fiction writers, this is the mundane aspect of constructing a global brain," said Richard F. Rashid, the head of research at Microsoft.
McCormack told HuffPost he was surprised by how uneventful and mundane participants viewed their behaviors.
Earth was pretty mundane from our view until we saw it from 45,000 kilometers in space.
Whatever the case, it's clear that Granade's artistic process is informed by his education in philosophy, with the frequent manifestation of what he describes as larger and more universal questions that address the linguistic, architectural, or mundane implications of viewing a familiar form from a new perspective.
This passage also illustrates another aspect of Bellow's genius (not a word to be flung around lightly): by finding poetry in the everyday and mundane, Bellow makes you view the world through new eyes, and in doing so rediscover your own place in it, thereby helping you make your first tentative steps towards rehabilitation.
The issues this section touches on are distant, linguistic descendents of issues that arose in connection with Locke's view that mundane and scientific concepts (the empiricists called them ideas) derive their contents from experience (Locke 1700, 104 121,162 164, 404 408).
Her obsessive and painstakingly precise creations prompt us to view the mundane in a new light, by presenting a fractured image that is easily identifiable as the original quotidian object, but is also a complete displacement.
