the Nanocrobes

Assemblage:  (Wikipedia) The origin of the artform dates to the cubist constructions of Pablo Picasso c. 1912-1914.  The origin of the word (in its artistic sense) can be traced back to the early 1950s, when Jean Dubuffet created a series of collages of butterfly wings, which he titled assemblages d'empreintes. However, both Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso and others had been working with found objects for many years prior to Dubuffet. Russian artist Vladimir Tatlin created his "counter-reliefs" in the mid 1910s.


Nanocrobe: a series of small playful assemblages, begun in 1964, continuing into the present.  an analog of dreaming; daydreaming; pattern recognition; mistakes of navigational wetware; the spontaneous generation of active imps; miner assistants in the infowars, digging in the soiled imaginatorium.


photos by Joe Paban

"Snap your Finger"
benjamin harubin 2015
4" x 15" x 3"
assemblage
(objects found in Snapfinger Creek)

"Benevolent chaotic first phase of the early Space Republic"
benjamin harubin 2015
9" x 13" x 5"
assemblage

"HEADBANGKILLBOT"
benjamin harubin 2015
12" x 5" x 12"
assemblage

"pteravair"
benjamin harubin 2014
8" x 10" x 5"
assemblage

"crossing"
benjamin harubin 2015
7" x 10" x 5"
assemblage

"spontaneous generation"
benjamin harubin 2015
4" x 6" x 5"
assemblage

"DJ ADHOKE"
benjamin harubin 2014
10" x 7" x 4"
assemblage

"anomaly"
benjamin harubin 2015
8" x 9" x 3"
assemblage

"Cycle Up Re-Revolution (Re: Evolution)"
benjamin harubin 2014
10" x 6" x 1"
assemblage

"FWD EVO"
benjamin harubin 2014
6" x 5" x 1.5"
assemblage

"Nut Nose Retrodont"
benjamin harubin 2015
8" x 5" x 3"
assemblage

"1st steppes on mars (by a man)"
benjamin harubin 2014
8" x 3" x 5"
acrylic/ rock/ paper

"semi-phore"
benjamin harubin 2014
10" x 6" x 7"
assemblage

"rock: again"
benjamin harubin 2012
9" x 3" x 5"
acrylic/ rock

"dream stone 7"
benjamin harubin 2012
4" x 3" x 3"
acrylic/ rock

"kitchen demon"
benjamin harubin 2014
11" x 10" x 7"
assemblage