Assembly Required
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2023-04-27
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Naimo, Anthony
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East Carolina University
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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.
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Metal design , fine art , art , digital art , digital photography , digital collage , collage , composite , scifi , science fiction , robot , found object , salvage , scavenge , found futurism , salvagepunk , queering , queer art