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4.5″ x 6″ x 3″, and completely fish free!

Every assemblage artist needs to do some various on the “hand of glory,” it seems, so this is mine: And it appears that my assemblage piece “Piscesque” isn’t going to be at the Pandemonium Art Gallery after all, because I can’t get it to stop smelling like old fish.

I’ll be at the Salt Lake Comic Con on September 5-7.  If you want to glean pearls of wisdom from my utterances, you can find me on these panels: Thursday 5pm: Movies So Bad, They’re Awesome 8pm: HP Lovecraft: Is His Work Still Relevant in the 21st Century? Friday 6pm: Monsters: Should the Classic Ones…

Technically, the opening of the Pandemonium Art Gallery isn’t until tomorrow evening, but tonight was the exclusive pre-opening, with artists, family and friends invited — a lot of people in a small gallery space. it would have been rude of me to take pictures of other people’s art in the gallery, so I just took…

The caveat for any sketch for a prospective assemblage is that it’s guaranteed to change significantly depending on what assemblable materials present themselves, but I think when I do this one, the result will be recognizably related to this: I’m not going to start it right away — got a couple of things to finish…

I intended this to be a one-day build last Saturday, but between visiting three Asian markets before I found suitable dried fish and then waiting for layers of acrylic to dry (yes, a heat gun is on my wish list), it took be until yesterday to put the finishing touches on it. That’s okay; with…

I don’t know how to classify this, as it’s not precisely an assemblage.  A construction, maybe? Whatever it is, I’m currently calling it “The Fate of Centeotl”: It’s pretty large for what I usually do, 19″ x 23″ x 7″ (largely because of the sticky-out nails).  It’s also minimally painted — the salvaged wood had…

No, not part of the same thing. I’m not happy with the orange part of the fish one. I think I’ll be digging the Liquid Nails out of the tin and trying again.