"Assemblage is an artistic form or medium usually created on a defined substrate that consists of three-dimensional elements projecting out of or from the substrate. It is similar to collage, a two-dimensional medium." Wikipedia

Date:   3/19/2019 3:15:06 AM ( 5 y ago)

Years ago, when I first encountered assemblage art, I didn't know what to call it, except "three dimensional collage made out of junk". It wasn't until I met my friend LFIRE, collage and assemblage artist, that I had a name for it. While I've made many an Eco Art piece with items sticking out of a flat surface, this art piece below is most likely the first that I've made that I can call "assemblage art".









Eco Art by mayah(c)2019 Assemblage, 5.5" X 2.5" X 2.5" "Light Bulb House" made from recycled light bulb packaging, broken light bulb, dried flowers, cardboard, advertisement pictures of light bulbs,burnt out light bulb, non-VOC acrylic glaze, electrical tape

This art piece started when I dropped a burnt out light bulb on the floor; it shattered, revealing the inner glass tubing and copper wires that remained intact inside of the bulb base. I found this interior fascinating, and wondered why I'd never paid attention to the inside of a light bulb before.

It just seemed natural somehow to put the inner bulb parts inside of the light bulb packaging that had housed it when it was intact. I reinforced the interior of the bulb packaging with cardboard, glued the dried flowers onto the copper wires and inside the bulb bottom, adhered three pictures of the 1/2 light bulbs around the sides (the magazine pix came that way...for the life of me I can not remember what product they were selling but it had nothing to do with light bulbs...something to do with innovation/ideas...), mounted the whole thing onto cardboard squares. The entire "house" cardboard is coated with several layers of acrylic for protection. Electrical tape around the "door". Topped off the "house" with a burnt out mini 25-watt bulb, and there you have it.


LFIRE: "Dreaming a New Reality" Curezone blog: https://www.curezone.org/blogs/f.asp?f=471


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