Assemblage artist Roger Wood is a self-proclaimed storyteller.
“…These pieces… play with and trade upon the themes of accumulation and juxtaposition. I am an avid collector of bric-a-brac; of the discarded; of the overlooked.
“Years ago when I was teaching, one of the first field-trips with my students was to the flea markets and rummage sales encouraging them to be open to the unexpected, to the possibilities that various disparate items might present. This involved seeing, touching, feeling, connecting, selecting and later placing the objects side-by-side to enable a kind of visual language, to speak wordlessly. I am calling my recent assemblages “Stories Without Words” where the objects take the place of phrases and metaphors to become something of a ‘meta-text’ as in dreams and fantasies.”
-About Roger Wood
As someone who is similarly attracted to discarded small antique items, I can completely relate to his fascination with them. However, I definitely lack his facility for turning them into something fabulous. He has a charming way of elevating the “junk” he collects into fairytale assemblages that really do seem to hint of an intriguing backstory.
You can follow the very talented Roger Wood on his website and on Instagram and Facebook.
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May 11, 2019 at 7:19 am
Happy Mother’s Day! Donna.
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May 11, 2019 at 10:27 am
Thank you! And to you and yours, too.
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May 11, 2019 at 7:57 am
Not my thing but very creative. I do like the wall pieces. You could look all day and try to figure out what was once what.
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May 11, 2019 at 10:28 am
I love pieces like that. So much fun!
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May 11, 2019 at 8:35 am
I like all of them! Hal
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May 11, 2019 at 5:16 pm
They really are fun!
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May 11, 2019 at 11:48 am
I so love steampunk and the creativity of people who create these masterpieces!
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May 11, 2019 at 5:18 pm
He seems especially careful and thoughtful with his joining of unrelated objects. Steampunk can look like things stuck to other things. This feels like true art.
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May 11, 2019 at 1:19 pm
Predictably, my Steampunklet likes these pieces a lot. He especially likes the tricycle. Assemblage is, I think, one of those art forms that we might assume is easy and accessible because it just involves sticking some found objects together but which must actually be incredibly difficult and involve a lot of skill because of the need to fuse together objects of diverse scale and size, made of different materials, while keeping the whole piece coherent.
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May 11, 2019 at 5:19 pm
Absolutely! I just said something like that to Loisajay!
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May 11, 2019 at 7:25 pm
So you did. And much more succinctly.
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May 12, 2019 at 10:36 am
As if
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