bri.co.lage noun /bree-koh-lahzh/
(in art or literature) construction or creation from various materials on hand.
also: something constructed this way, such as life.
bri.co.leur noun /bree-koh-ler/
a person who engages in bricolage
also: a fancy french word for tinkerer
"The fragment is not a failure of completion. It is, for those willing to look, the most truthful unit of thought."
— W.G. Sebald*
— W.G. Sebald*
"To make from scraps, with full consciousness of what has been borrowed and from whom — this is not a lesser art. It is the only honest one."
— Edward Said*
— Edward Said*
"What does it mean to make something, publicly, incompletely, on your own terms? Experiments in Bricolage holds the question open and lives inside it."
— Claudia Rankine*
— Claudia Rankine*
* blurbs intended solely for illustrative purposes
Experiments in Bricolage
Nawaaz Ahmed
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