The act of de-construction, the opposite of the original making and assemblage is the tipping point of my transformative work that engages the viewer from one status to another. While in the material word the object remains essentially the same, the de-functioning, de-constructing and appropriating creates another word of being.
Nelson Goodman stated in Ways of Wordmaking that “Worldmaking as we know it always starts from worlds already on hand; the making is a remaking. Nothing exists for a first time, nothing is new, all making is remaking, appropriating, transforming, therefore changing.
