An Assemblage
Loosely, and assemblage is an open-framework that hybridizes mixed-media, painting, drawing and a sculpture, where two and three-dimensional material objects are added to a substrate, or combined to produce a substrate or container itself. Sometimes linework, paint or other media are added. As a collection, each material deposit can refer to something in the world, but also develops a network of relations to the other materials assembled together. While this technique can be used to create recognizable images, the process can be a strategy for collapsing traces of experience and memory, as simulation of accrual and removal, or an index of urban or landscape processes.
For convenience, the term “assemblage” can be shorthand for a whole range of distinct but related techniques, for example:
For convenience, the term “assemblage” can be shorthand for a whole range of distinct but related techniques, for example:
Bricolage - is an assemblage of readily-available objects. Place based, its a species of assemblage that’s an index of that time, space, economy, ecology, etc.
Collage - originally “papier collé” a collage tend to involve an additive process of gluing paper or other flat materials onto a substrate - sometimes there is tension between the surface and the signification and relation of the history of the objects
Decollage - tends to be the inverse of collage - rather than building up to produce an effect, this process involves subtraction or removal - excising, tearing, precision cuts.
Palimpsest - derives from an ancient process of writing and editing the texts written on hides or parchments - which involved scraping away marks In order to clear areas for writing over the top.
Collage - originally “papier collé” a collage tend to involve an additive process of gluing paper or other flat materials onto a substrate - sometimes there is tension between the surface and the signification and relation of the history of the objects
Decollage - tends to be the inverse of collage - rather than building up to produce an effect, this process involves subtraction or removal - excising, tearing, precision cuts.
Palimpsest - derives from an ancient process of writing and editing the texts written on hides or parchments - which involved scraping away marks In order to clear areas for writing over the top.
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