Assemblages-5
Continued search how to join elements, still by use of remnants of construction or demolition material, and found objects. Sometimes introduction of collage-material. Matter steers direction and way of fusion. (period June 2017 - ). In this period also more focus on graphics, collage, painting, thus lower rate of production of assemblages...
dated 2016 until 2025
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City-dweller
2025
Living may be in cities in the / East and in the West / in China, South Africa, maybe in Japan /
or as you suggest, in Bogota. // Such life can be harsh...
(Assemblage "East-West" from 2015 dissembled and renovated in 2025)
Seven different options
2024"Six, and one more, pieces of board // deny a lack of choice"
Child in bath with ball
2023"Picking up matters that were discarded / changes the course of things" (puppet, old cooking pot, ball casted, tiles)
A fenceless journey
2023Basis is the photo used in "Puorea", 2015, stripped and with new elements
Ambiguous-1
2023The significance of elements in shape, composition and color
Ambiguous-2
2023the significance of elements in form, composition and color
Hé ING
2023He ING: (thoughtfull) "our grandchild will not be able / to sell our home / when it is under threat / of being flooded" call to fossile bank
Different views
2022assemblage-relief-collage (private collection)
EE (moving in space)
2021
One way or another / the direction is uncertain, or /
what movement will bring. // Certainly, space is / at stake.
Assemblage / collage (wood, metal, paper, objett trouvé, paint)
"Haus zur Frieden"
2021Haus zur Frieden: Nach der Arbeit / trug die Frau / und ihre Mann // Die Zeit ins Haus / mit Freude und / Frieden (wood, plaster, metal, paint)
Symbols
2019"Since this creation had to / involve painting / with an angle grinder, / and metal with wood, // it raises the question / by what means / David and Robert were connected / other than by opposing views."
The curtain did not fall
2019assemblage, wood, metal, cloth, glass, including three objets trouvés.
The listener
2018"If you say / I heard your words / that's what you think." (old chopped wood and metal)
Chair, under supervision
2019"for someone with a position / high up / the dissection of function and meaning / is far-reaching (Assemblage, wood, iron, textile, paint, solid element 44x43x22 cm)
Direction
2019When going in a particular direction / the resistance points the other way. (Assemblage, wood, iron, paint)
Once the meteorite
2019"Once the meteorite / cleaved the sky with flames / and fell into the sea" (assemblage, wood, metal, paint)
Words can linger on in the air
2019
"Words can linger on in the air, if given support"
(assemblage, wood, copper thread, stone, paint.
made from remnants and discarded material)
Ni-gris (revealed)
2019When you are taken apart / to the components that shaped you / this may be seen as enrichment / in as far as reduction may lead to / improvement. (original assemblage Ni-gris; disassembled with element added to central part revealed.)
Crawling, again
2018How to make connections / of elements and the outside world? The answer to my question / came crawling, again.
Cubistic dream
2017Can a dream / be a memory, and if so // depends the format / on the shape of the display? (Temporary sculpture, assemblage)
Rags, worn-out
2017"Rags, worn-out / shelter a skeleton / of fixed perceptions" Assemblage, wood, metal, cloths, resin, ashes, sand, paint, brick-powder
When the going gets tough
2017
"When the going gets tough, the tough get going" / is what they say. // We'll see / where I stand.
(assemblage, recycling material (wood, iron dust) and resin, sand and paint)
A difficult state
2017"Every creation / knows a difficult state / at which the structure / resists change. // To move along the lines / brings man / to the abyss / or not?" Assemblage, carton, paint, ashes, metal, wood
A barren shelter
2017"Once in a while / conditions in a shelter / appear more barren / than those outside" assemblage, wood, resin, paint, screws
Movement from within
2016"When the pieces were seen fit / and fixed in their proper position / the movement was undeniable / as it arose from within." Assemblage (relief), wood, paper, paint, sand (image with frame published on https://www.flickr.com/photos/97577184@N04/31790262386/)
A certain meaning
2016A certain meaning: "An expression aims to have / a certain meaning. // Yet, when you think / to know the content // then the look will / alter." (Assemblage, wood, cement, paper, cloth, epoxy resin, acryl paint, sawdust, size includes fixed frame)
Progress (halted)
2016"When going forth / from wood to bronze / and grasping the result / I realized progress had halted. // A result stands in the way / of the learning process." Bronze, based upon earlier wooden assemblage entitled "Progress".