Assembly Required
Author
Naimo, Anthony
Abstract
Assembly Required is a narrative-driven project using found objects to explore themes of imagination, community, impermanence, and reinvention. The artworks encapsulated within this research are fabricated almost entirely using waste-materials: rusted metallic oddities, mildewed comic books, and found images. An alternate future is imagined using the materials of yesterday. This is a found-future setting which celebrates a scrappiness and ingenuity in people to think our way out of the impossible. I illustrate how all things exist in a cultural cycle of rising and falling value – and reflect on people’s ability to enact alchemical exchange upon these material meanings to fabricate exquisite, new realities.
Date
2023-04-27
Citation:
APA:
Naimo, Anthony.
(April 2023).
Assembly Required
(Master's Thesis, East Carolina University). Retrieved from the Scholarship.
(http://hdl.handle.net/10342/12832.)
MLA:
Naimo, Anthony.
Assembly Required.
Master's Thesis. East Carolina University,
April 2023. The Scholarship.
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/12832.
June 29, 2024.
Chicago:
Naimo, Anthony,
“Assembly Required”
(Master's Thesis., East Carolina University,
April 2023).
AMA:
Naimo, Anthony.
Assembly Required
[Master's Thesis]. Greenville, NC: East Carolina University;
April 2023.
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Publisher
East Carolina University