The Assemblagist
:: Valerie MacEwan :: Fluxs.us :: buy now, pay later ::
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What trips your trig­ger? For me, it’s aban­doned metal, cracked and chipped paint on an old piece of wood, an old chest of draw­ers with the legs miss­ing… rusted ele­ments of some for­got­ten auto­mo­bile. I re-​purpose dis­cards and turn them into art. I assem­ble items some­one left behind and cre­ate mean­ing­ful (?) dis­so­nance. It’s a col­lage of […]

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The last Wood­side Antiques auc­tion we attended must have been in, what… Jan­u­ary? That’s when we acquired the Vic­to­rian scrap­book and the sewing bas­ket filled with dozens of spools of vin­tage thread. And the Vic­to­rian hand­made lace, the 1920s dresses… great bunches of “stuff” at some very low prices. Yes, I’m talk­ing to myself. Didn’t […]

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My Father

While in grad­u­ate school, I often read cre­ative non-​fiction to bet­ter fix­ate the details of an his­toric event within the con­text of its phys­i­cal and timely occur­rence. My field of study, 19th cen­tury Amer­i­can his­tory, pro­vided me with inspi­ra­tion for many of my assem­blages. This week I work on “regions of opti­cal power”. These boxes range in size […]

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