Here are some images that came up when I typed "art" into the search bar for my Google Photos account:
I grew up in a family of makers and my Dad was always making weird assemblages like this:
Is it a sensitive detector of cultural vibrations? With its olive oil container as anchor is it a statement about declining Italian manufacturing capacity? Could it be a nod to minimalism? Assemblage art?
These are the sorts of things my Dad would put together simply to get a job done - in this case changing the silicone bearing fluid in his favorite audio tonearm.
Consider this assemblage: pieces of railroad debris collected behind my sister's house and suspended entirely by gravity. Again, this is the sort of thing I grew up around before I knew anything about art.
I make a lot of interactive art, but I'm often surprised when people spontaneously interact with other objects around the studio, like when my son and his friend came to visit and climbed a scrap metal tower:
Art happens at the beach:
Walking around the Sonoran Desert:
Or walking around the studio carrying sculpture parts:
Even getting ready for dinner when someone left an animal friend on the counter:
What these examples need to become art could be:
Framing - the use of an established format that says "I am art" (like a painting in a frame on a wall)
Titles that communicate a particular intent
Curatorship that communicates how these pieces work as art.
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