The Assemblagist
:: Valerie MacEwan :: Fluxs.us :: buy now, pay later ::

My goal, 200 artist books, seems almost attain­able. I’m to 60+ books and the end of April (my self-​imposed dead­line) looms far not near. Yesterday’s addi­tions derived from a new source! The Water­gate Tapes… I’m fold­ing the book that inspired my win­ning 3-​D piece — “Fish­ing for Nixon”. Aged paper­backs fold nicely, thank you very much. The gallery phởtos […]

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Assemblage #249

I was a one-​girl band in the mid-​1960s. My par­ents some­how pro­cured an entire “band” which could be strapped to one’s chest and hung over shoul­ders. The front con­tained a wash­board with a scrub brush, a floogle horn-​type assem­blage, lots of cym­bals, , a bicy­cle horn, spoons and the rear assem­bly could be acti­vated with a lever. I don’t remem­ber what all […]

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Currents of passion run deep on the River of Strange.

Work con­tin­ues on the Ann Head but progress is slow. This sore throat/​fever/​aches and pain — stuffy and I can’t rest syn­drome is for the birds. My seden­tary days make the dogs nutzo bazooms because I won’t take them for a walk until the sun goes down and the air is cooler. My lit­tle house­hold fills quickly with inter­nal squalor […]

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