Sep
30
2009
Vintage matchbooks in assemblage art
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Been working my little collage fingers to the bone. Well, that ain't really true, because it went from collage to assemblage in one fell swoop. Blammo... it started when I found these provocative
matchbooks in the pile o'what can I do with this? stuff in the studio desk drawer. Rather than just have the matches sitting around collecting dust bunnies - I plucked out the flammable portion and commenced to frame the little suckers. Then, once framed and snappy snippy, I used the matchbook - faux - art as background for the cigar box rooms I'm creating. Sound wacko? It is. Assemblage art is only for the bonkers and the wacko of those of us who can handle the insidious side-by-side of disparate objects. ... read more