He studded the assemblages with Salvation Army jewelry and throttled them with nylon stockings.
It is a painstaking process and many of the assemblages take months to complete.
The assemblages on the western and eastern sides of the mountain chain were named the Pacific and Atlantic realms, respectively.
Ethnology, fashion and politics have an intimate relationship in the assemblages produced by this artist during a year as artist-in-residence here.
Some of the assemblages have moving parts, like balls that roll across metal rails, or chains hanging from rings that slide from side to side along a bar.
The relationships are intimate, if not always apparent, between the films, the assemblages, the dense black-and-white felt-tip pen drawings of the late 1960's and the compulsively ordered ink-blot drawings of the 1990's.
The assemblages on "Hollywood Squares," especially, are sources of glee, as the show serves as a debtor's option for has-beens who used to pack stadiums, along with up-and-coming but overspecialized acts.
Truck tires, glass reflector fragments, shards of ceramic, metal cans, wax and chicken wire: these common objects all turn into something sacred, even magical in the assemblages of Ms. Maier.
Like Mr. Liccardi, Lynne Hefner Ferrante pays homage to the assemblages of Alfonso Ossorio, whose "congregations" invested found objects -- toys and other items -- with complex new meanings, making pointed social and political critiques.
Despite the heterogeneity in the assemblages, interesting palaeoenvironmental and palaeoethnobotanical results were produced.
The assemblages of entomophilous plants at the two sites were similar.
