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AsSEM­blaGE iN DeSIGn
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An influ­en­tial artist recently declared 2009 to be the “Year of Assem­blage”. Those of us who remain firmly grounded upon the pocosin of com­mon sense appli­ca­tion can well appre­ci­ate the rumor in this announcement.

The beauty of the assem­blag­ist mind, the pure and pas­sion­ate inten­sity of their vision, unfan­ci­ful and undressed up. Such artists have night­mares in which they can not dis­tin­guish the true from the lit­er­ate. Wak­ing within the con­fines of a nor­mal struc­ture will deter­mine the out­come of the moment.
–Spencer Montgomery

In the devel­op­ment of the Absolute, the def­i­n­i­tion of the sub­stance evolves into a plu­ral­is­tic ten­dency grounded firmly in the real­ism of the period.

This, then, is how the assem­blage artist thinks. In con­crete lit­eral def­i­n­i­tions of immutable objects. Less­ened only by con­tact with real­ity, these objects become desires.

That’s all I’m say­ing… and it’s true. Those read­ers who do not embrace the Real­ity of Assem­blage Com­bined have never vis­ited a 91-​year-​old demen­tia patient who just broke their elbow and cracked open the back of their head because she for­got she no longer knew how to walk.

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3 Comments to “AsSEM­blaGE iN DeSIGn”

  1. David Whitt says:

    Hey there, Hi there, Ho there, You are as crazy as can be. that’s why we love you. Just want to check out what was going on. We don’t want none of them com­mies creap­ing in.

  2. admin says:

    Pinko Com­mies are the worst — they’re faux and fear­some. Artists must embrace social­ism, I feel, due to the cur­rent eco­nomic cli­mate in Swan Quar­ter and Bug Tus­sle. Don’t for­get Lizard Slip and Ter­rapin Track… hotbeds of dis­con­tent. Ya’ll take care now, hear?
    –V

  3. Caroline says:

    That slideshow really looks amazing!

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