Artwork Description:
ThisASSEMBLAGE isthe most complex grouping of FOUND ITEMS I have ever assembled, nailed down, and titled. Note the FURLED flag. [let your hair unfurl, andyour heart ]ENT: in Tolkien's books about Middle Earth; an ENT was an individual and self consciousOLD-GROWTH TREE, vital and self aware and 60 feet tall and who could walk and talk and could SO easily pick up hobbits. According to THE COMPACT EDITION OF THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY, [11th printing, 1971 ]the word ENT means: 1. a scion or graft2. EXISTENT [ ! ]. Ent is an old English word for: SOME KIND OF GIANT. Google SPELL-CHECK suggests that i have misspelledthe word NET. Regarding this ASSEMBLAGE -I found thesegilded wooden letters early one morning back in '99, on the sidewalk about 60 yards east of the front door of the Drhumor Building, here in this fine basalmic gentle town. Ent might refer to an ENTrance, or to the verb: enTRANCE...