After undergoing a process of spiritual transformation, the artisan is believed to transform the material used to create the image into a receptacle of divine power.
Technology, with its almost magical abilities to transform the material world, may even encourage a form of gnosticism, in which transcendence over matter is sought through mystical contemplation.
This record may have an imposed concept, but it's far from arbitrary, and the musicians transform the material to their own ends.
At first, Henning Jocelyn was intending to turn her research into an academic lecture, aimed at Hughes scholars – but last year, with the characters still looming large in her mind, she decided to transform the material into a play.
It's past time for a discussion of APM that begins with an understanding of what the technology is, its physical basis, and how it could transform the material basis of human civilisation.
The important thing at this stage is to move away from the original experience - the walk - and begin to transform the material in some way, however small or subtle.
Upon movement, dislocations and escort defects locally transform the material and introduce stacks of planar faults which represent a slab of a different but related structure.
Simply developing feminist philosophy with reference to disability is not meaningful or accountable unless feminist philosophers transform the material and cultural arrangements, real-time interactions, and physical spaces in which feminist philosophy takes place.
Only when he "expands" the rails by putting alternating colors in a row does Gillick transform the material into objects of conceptual interest.
Microscopic crystalline structures transform the material from white to yellow and blue, a function you can see in real time as your shadow passes over the fabric.
