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Assemblage

See esp:  [Collage]
          [Installation]

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Assemblage


Actually, as Marcel Duchamp pointed out: Everything (including painting) 
is assemblage. But, basically, its when we *place* stuff on a surface or
into a space. Technically, into a space implies:  [Installation].

Collage is of course assemblage where the components are essentiall
(or not) permanently put into place. We glue/tape/sew them onto a
substrate (the "matrix") which can be paper, card stock, canvas, etc.

Assemblage can (and we usually imply that it is) is temporary. Two
the most notable "assemlagists" are Christo and Jean-Claude - best
known for wrapping "Pont Neuf", "The Riechstatd", as well as the 
umbrellas in Japan and California, and wrapping the delicate bio
system of small islands off of the coast of Florida. In their case,
*all* of their assemblages are BY DETERMINATION of the artists -
ALWAYS temporary. 

In one sense, the "snooze and you loose" is underscored as part of
the temporary-i-ness of the work. We are used to permanent art 
structures, like the Taj Mahal, the Mono Lisa, etc. So, in the 
"space age" (the age of "15 minutes of fame", etc), their works
underscore the temporariness (ephimerality ??sp??) of many art 
works. To a certain extent, such temporary assemblages mirror
the temporailiness of stage plays as opposed to films, etc.



Assemblage as Painting


Ross Hailey's 'how organic should you go?'
Ross assembles 'a woman' - a celleray hand (arm is the
stalk) tosses grapes and strawberries into her mouth.
Her tongue outstretched (a roma tomatoe?) catches a
red grape. Her eye, a blueberry, a carved peach her
nose, and a 'new' potatoE her rosy cheek, a halved 
apple with seeds as the ear cannal: her ear. And of
course, you just have to LOVE that vibrant green
romain? lettuce hair! 

Src: Fort Worth Star Telegram, 2007-06-10, P. G1,
story "How Organic Should You Go?" by Liz Stevens, 
art work by Ross Hailey.





Feltbug


http://feltbug.blogspot.com/2007/05/relation-of-birds-to-fruit-growing.html

also: google "feltbug" "bug feast"
  (lady bug eating bugs that are trying to eat a plant)

http://feltbug.blogspot.com/