Tag: found object

  • Found Objects & Waste Transmutation Dominates African Art?

    Found Objects & Waste Transmutation Dominates African Art?

    Found Object, Recycled Art, Readymade or Junk Art? Abstract The phenomenon of found objects and waste transmutation into works of art, dominates contemporary African art ostensibly as the new continental creative identity. Majority of contemporary African artists experiment with waste as their preferred artistic medium and find in them (waste), potent metaphors for creative expressionism.…

  • Prehistoric Ocarinas-Ancient Flints Contain Musical Scales

    Prehistoric Ocarinas-Ancient Flints Contain Musical Scales

    A few years back, I posted the “I Found a… Pipe” blogpost – an attempt to initiate a series of found object accounts; exploring the dynamics of curiosity, the chance encounters, the chains of association, the pratfalls and prat-uplifts that may accompany such discoveries.  One of the persistent themes is the idea that electronic-equivalents of sound-making processes…