Trash assemblage, Found Art. The back side of a breaker box, rusted steel mounted on 16×20 canvas board–untouched. Look closely at this and tell me– how are my ink and watercolor ‘abstractions,’ not drawn as much from nature as any landscape or still life?
This was going way wrong. How could I possibly save it? (stay tuned)
32×28″ Oil on canvas
....thousands of abandoned masks
rise up from city streets
on a pole tall as Willy Penn's phallic scroll
they flail!
sails signalling the ship of state in irons
white flags
their message of surrender
gone viral
28×28 roofing tar, street trash, acrylic. A transition piece from assemblage to acrylic paintings.
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First of 3 older pieces–the assemblages I was doing at the OX. Few have survived the 4 moves since. They are hard to store, and don’t travel well.
Auto motor insulation and street trash. 26×15″ From 2012. Taking them for storage at my son’s house.
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#210 from September. 2013. An assemblage from the Ox, a car door panel, with acrylic color–what I call, ReCyclations–recycling trash to art.
Wonder what happened to this one? … check my log. Ah…poet, Kimberly Ann Southwick bought this! Does she still have it?
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Jacob Russell's Magic Names 