As long as I can remember, I’ve created assemblage art, I just didn’t have a name for it. I put it aside for several years after discovering how much I enjoyed producing digital art. A few months ago, my computer crashed and along with it, the software I used to design digital art. If I was going to keep making art, it was not going to be digital, at least not until I got a different computer.
I started reading books about dimensional art and assemblage and was inspired to create my own. My very first attempt at deliberately creating assemblage art produced the piece shown above. The color scheme is very simple- gold, red, a bit of dark green and black. I titled it, Faith Worketh by Love. It is based on the last part of the scripture found in Galatians 5:6.
The idea came about as I was brainstorming and playing around with various things from my collection of discarded items. I noticed that a gear from my computer (that I’d torn apart) fit over the wood heart and the other end fit the corner of the surge protector. I had an aha moment.
The wood heart, representing love, is connected to “faith” with some gears from a disassembled VCR. Many of the other components were taken from the computer.
The faith element was made by gluing letters onto the bottom part of a surge protector . The electrical wire represents faith being connected to God, the power source. The “cross” on the right side wasn’t planned but it’s good anyway.
The black background represents the darkness of the world (or maybe I just picked that color because nothing else seemed to work). The flowers along the bottom represent life and things going well when faith and love are working together.
The piece is not quite finished yet, I need to put something on the heart to break up the red. Maybe some words, hmmm… what color?