"It makes a mundane material cheerful," he said.

Given the tight budget, "one of the conceits has been taking very mundane materials and trying to make them elegant," Mr. MacDevitt said.

He, too, uses mundane materials.

However, many otherwise mundane materials can also lead to a dangerous dust cloud such as grain, flour, sugar, powdered milk and pollen.

Ms. Aycock's mural-size drawings have a clarity and luminosity that is sometimes lost in the translation to the more mundane materials of her actual constructions.

The works here are full of details like this, which reflect Hoch's sensitivity to the most mundane materials.

Within an hour they had begun to find unsettling references, tucked into more mundane material.

The Tincture sought always to return to its proper, celestial state, but was confined by the mundane materials around it.

These included such mundane materials as timber for wing structures and fabric and dope to cover them.

Josephine Thom creates quiet monuments to uncelebrated moments in women's history using mundane, domestic materials.