uncle virgil | The Assemblagist

Dec 30 2010

Why Am I Publishing “Dancing With Uncle Virgil”?

Before we begin a 1979 story about Reba, Uncle Virgil's niece, let me explain what my fiction is doing here, front and center, in my art blog. ... read more

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Dec 27 2010

Chapter TWO

1978 in Fordyce, Arkansas

Virgil didn’t notice the aerosol can wrapped in old newspapers at the bottom of the trash box filled with the remnants of a Saturday afternoon cleaning frenzy. Continue reading

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Dec 24 2010

I begin the holiday season with the first chapter of my upcoming novel, Dancing With Uncle Virgil. Okay, Andreas, stop smirking, you read it ten years ago but I say it's STILL UPCOMING. Yes, Caroline, I know this is the "novel" that got me into the Ploughshares International Fiction Writing Seminar (Emerson College, Kastel Well, The Netherlands) in 1996... but it's still forthcoming, upcoming, and not finished... ... read more

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Definition of Assemblagist:

One who provides the redefinition of displaced ephemera and found objects by allowing for the movement of spatial and universal concepts via placement, thus creating the intent of objects previously limited only by the influence of space and time.
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Assemblage Art re-purposes man’s ephemeral detritus and gives it new life. It’s found object art at its finest. The ultimate recycling tool, assemblage multi-media art incorporates the past, the used and the discarded with the treasures of the day. It’s also a celebration of collage concepts combined with 3-dimensional elements.
I am many things to some people. Artist, writer, poet, mother, wife, grandmother…
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:: the development of the Absolute is a moral imperative.
:: the definition of a substance evolves around a pluralistic tendency which is grounded firmly in the realism of the period. Buy now, pay later — FluXus
“objects, or fragments not intended as art materials“
:: e-assemblagist definition: One who creates assemblage art from re-purposed objects which are acquired over a lengthy period of time thus allowing for the natural decomposition of the object. Rust.
:: e-assemblages camouflage the original intent of the object by utilizing artistic processes. See above.
Fluxs.us — the umbrella of art, the canvas of distribution.
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Why Am I Pub­lish­ing “Danc­ing With Uncle Virgil”?

Uncle Vir­gil — The Man

Chap­ter TWO

1978 in Fordyce, Arkansas

Danc­ing With Uncle Virgil

Def­i­n­i­tion of Assemblagist:

Slideshow

About this Out­sider Artist

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Taga­li­cious

Blogroll

fluxus

Important and Erudite

The Dead Mule parts

Why Am I Publishing “Dancing With Uncle Virgil”?

Uncle Virgil — The Man

Chapter TWO

Dancing With Uncle Virgil

Definition of Assemblagist:

About this Outsider Artist

Categories

Tagalicious