Assemblage

"Assemblage" is the 3-D version of "collage”. "Found object fragments," "discards," or "throwaways" (artist's work to look at: Schwitters, Cornell, Rauschenberg, Bearden, etc.).


These things are organized by their specific elements. The resulting groups are then arranged into compositions of art.


Extending to many cultures of people living in family, religious, work, and various other groups; We could be viewed as a complex living version of "assemblage”(Webster 1. a group of persons or things gathered or collected).


We have “found” each other by chance; either by blood, common goals, or a certain chemistry. These connections help to formulate new ideas, innovations, and even new generations. John Anderson

Saturday, July 15, 2017

Our July 10, 2017 Road Trip


                      Dubuque Arboretum and Botanical Gardens - 
                                Wikipedia en.m.wikipedia.org 

“The Arboretum is the largest in the United States staffed entirely by volunteers.”

“...include[s] what is claimed to be the largest public hosta garden in the United States (13000 plants representing over 700 varieties).” Wikipedia

This trip provided inspiration for some needed changes in our home garden (80% weeding, 10% new plants, 10% Architectural Structure upgrades and repairs)( timeline: ongoing) 














Tuesday, July 4, 2017

YUKITANGI

“YUKITANGI talked and talked to keep the wolf away,
But it talked so much it heard only itself,
not the river, not the wind, not even the wolf.
But the raven came and said, the wolf is hungry,
If you stop talking you’ll hear him…the wind too.
And when you hear the wind you’ll fly.
Then he became his nature, the eagle.
The eagle soared and it's flight said all

 it needed to say.”