The International Museum of Found Assemblage displays the works of artists working in the medium of Found Assemblage.
Found assemblage documents the forces of nature and man in the unintentional creation of art. Other artists are invited to submit photos of great found works of art, provided:
1. Found Assemblage documents found UNINTENTIONAL works of art. Heaps of trash, discarded objects are all valid subjects - but they must be unintentionally arranged;
2. the photographer does not alter/rearrange or create/as
semble the found objects themselves;
3. the photographer provides location, date, and time of the photograph;
4. the photographer provides a name and speculative artist statement from the viewpoint of the original artist. Copyright info:
Copyright of the orignial physical artwork is ascribed to the original artist. The atist "Unknown" produces most of the work featured in IMoFA. Copyright and of the photo and Speculative Artist Statement is ascribed to the orignal photographer. The photographer grants the International Museum of Found Assemblage permission to display on websites/social media, in gallery enviroments, and/or public events. The photographer retains ultimate reproduction/publishing rights to all submitted photographs and Speculative Artist Statements.
Title: The Last Unicorn
Location: 17th Street, Philadelphia, PA
Medium: unicorn chair, trash, abandoned childhood dreams.
Date: June 25, 2024
Artist: anonymous
Artist Statement:
One day you’re a magical unicorn, frolicking in the enchanted forest. The next day, someone shoots you, skins you, and makes you into a chair. Then you end up ruling trash.
Found Assemblage post
Title: Damn It Kaitlyn
Location: 17 & Pine Streets, Philadelphia, PA
Medium: child’s shoe, railing, parental exasperation
Date: September 1, 2023
Artist: anonymous
Artist Statement:
“Where’s your shoe, Kaitlyn?”
“It’s on my foot, see?” Kaitlyn shows foot with sneaker on it.
“Your other foot.”
“Oh. I don’t know.” Looking perplexed. “Can I have grapes?”
Exasperated, “Damn it Kaitlyn.”
Title: Loving You Is Easy Cause It’s Beautiful
Location: 1105 South Street Philadelphia, PA
Medium: stuffed heart, trash, despair
Date: March 16, 2018
Artist: anonymous
Artist Statement: The heart knows what the heart wants, and it cannot be dissuaded by logic or reason. Love transcends time and space, it’s bigger than you and me both, baby, and sometimes your heart ends up curbside in the trash with a 3/4 empty bottle of seltzer.
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Title: Numbers Station
Location: 18th & Christian, Philadelphia, PA
Medium: chalk, concrete, mystery
Date: August 27, 2017
Artist: anonymous
Artist Statement: Ok, usually draw unicorns or My Little Ponies on the sidewalk, but I heard daddy talking about Numbers Stations, and I thought that's pretty cool. Maybe Twilight Sparkle can use it to send encoded friendship messages to Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and Pinkie Pie.
Daddy made me erase it though, he got REALLY angry, yelling in some weird language that I never heard before. Mommy told him to calm down, that's the FSB would just give him a new key. I don't know what a FSB is but then he went down in that room he doesn't think I know about.
Daddy's mean. How is Twilight going to send her messages? I'm sad now.
Title: Suspension
Location: 17th & Christian, Philadelphia, PA
Medium: crane, stained glass, debris
Date: August 23, 2017
Artist: anonymous crane operator on a bender
Artist Statement: It's not "officially" quitting time but this is goddamn perfect. And screw it because I'm the only one in the crew qualified to operate this crane so if I want to dangle it for a day or two, who's going to stop me? Hell, I'm going to Penn's Port Pub. I'll be back in a few days. None of you fu***rs better touch the crane.
Title: The Great Flood
Location: City Hall Inner Courtyard, Philadelphia, PA
Medium: dropped beverage, City of Philadelphia Street map in concrete.
Date: August 21, 2017
Artist: anonymous
Artist Statement: Global. Fu***ng. Climate. Change. Will. F**k. Up. All. Your. S**t. Take. A. Look. At. What. It. Did. To. My. Fu***ng. Carmel. Vanilla. Soy. Macchiato. I. Dropped. When. I. Tried. To. Mop. Sweat. Off. My. Forehead. Goddamn. Heat. Now. This. F**k. F**k. F**k. This. Is. What. Your. City. Will. Look. Like. When. The. Floods. Come.
Fu***ng. Mondays.
Title: Taketh Thine Job And Shoveth It
Location: Broad & Walnut, Philadelphia, PA
Date: August 20, 2017
Medium: poorly manufactured office chair and concrete.
Artist: anonymous fed up cube drone
Artist Statement: It's not enough the hourly wage is s**te, benefits substandard, but I don't even get a proper cube? A discount rack Android tablet as a computer and an "Orkea" office chair outside Wawa? Efffff this. I'm done suck it. And I'm keeping the crap tablet.
Title: Abandonment and Death
Location: 9th & Walnut Streets, Philadelphia, PA
Date: August, 2017
Medium: sweet doughnut confectionery and sidewalk.
Artist: anonymous inattentive human
Artist Statement: Munchkin, your deliciousness will be wasted as your inattentive human master abandoned you. Your fate is either rat-food or foot-crush. A universal fate, though I doubt that brings you any solace.
Title: Synchronicity of Dogwalkers
Location: 18th & Fitzwater, Philadelphia, PA.
Date: May 17, 2017
Artist: collaboration between several humans and dogs.
Artist Statement: As Karl Jung wrote: "When coincidences pile up in this way, one cannot help being impressed by them – for the greater the number of terms in such a series, or the more unusual its character, the more improbable it becomes."
Title: Still Life with Access Cover
Date: April 10, 2017
Location: 1400 Block of Waverly Street, Philadelphia, PA
Artist: Unknown
Artist Statement:
F**k that guy. F**k him he's a s**tty s**t s**thole. He's not going to get a gander at these ladies again! Whooo! Breathe free Wonder Twins!
Blaaaaaaaaaarf. Ugh. Damn you Jägermeister!
Title: Happy Now?
Date: February 2017
Location: 1500 block of Christian Street Philadelphia, PA
Artist Statement:
So glad you decided to kick me to the curb after all these years. All these years of sitting in your living room, cheerfully waiting for you to come home and sit your fat ass on me. Fine. Have a good time with your Raymore & Flanigan brown leather mid century bitch.
Title: I Will Never Let You Go
Date: January 16, 2017
Location: 1600 block of Christian Street, Philadelphia, PA
Artist: Unkown
The love that dare not speak its name, the sink could not bear being parted from its stove lover and was caught on the stoves burners. It was the first time they had actually embraced. It was then they both realized they had no idea how to consummate their love and were now both in an awkward and somewhat uncomfortable position.
Title:
Found Assemblage #77, A Kodak Moment
Artist: Unknown
Date: 11/25/16 12:28 pm
Artist Statement:
"Relics of a forgotten era, these five carousels sit abandoned, a testament to all the forgotten vacation slideshows or art history seminars no one wanted to watch in the first place. The carousels sit in hope of some hipster to rescue them and perhaps print out his Instagram photos onto slides and force his friends to watch them even though they don't want to. The circle of life continues..."
Location:
17th & Catherine Streets
Philadelphia, PA
United States of America
Title: Don't Throw Me Away...
Artist: Unknown.
Photographed: October 24, 2016
Poor kitty! Put out to be crammed in the recycling truck with beer bottles, IKEA boxes, and a hoarder's collection of 20 years of People magazines. Still, Kitty Chair has a hopeful smile. Even though the ones you love think you're trash, at least you're part of reduce/reuse/recycle.
Title: Assemblage #48, artist unknown.
Photographed: September 12, 2016
a) commentary on the changing of the season from the sexy bikini tops of summer to the more staid tan bras of winter reflecting the death rebirth cycle.
b) an gender q***r statement illustrating the absurdity of binary gender roles by gendering trees.
c) a statement of feminist liberation and love of tequila.
Title: "Why Hast Thou Foresaken Me?"
Photographed: July 10, 2016
Found Assemblage can be a single object carefully placed by random happenstance. Consider the shoe, often found alone by the side of the highway. Longing for it's companion, a fundamental sadness. Or consider this shoe, perhaps by some Cinderella? But no Prince Charming has found it; will it ever find its way back to her life?
I allow the forces of nature and man to create works which I find and name.
My first piece, titled "Couch Uprising" June 30, 2016
Artist statement: No longer will I be constrained by norms of society I am throwing off the shackles of my oppressors, as symbolized by the upturned couch waiting for the trash. Plus it smells like cat p*e.
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