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This morning as I watch the snow falling outside my window again, the beautiful stark white blanket covering the brown of trees and ground offers no relief from this long Winter chill. I crave the oh-so-bright-soft-delicate-shocking-neon-pastel colors of Spring to warm me from the inside out.
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Michael deMeng is a mad alchemist. When the assemblage artist finds a discarded shoe or an empty sardine can he doesn’t see garbage, he sees a personal shrine. deMeng’s gift, transforming the common into the sacred, becomes clear when you study pieces like ‘Urning Rubber’, a mixed media reliquary meant to hold treasured objects, and ‘Hell Mask’, that boasts teeth made from a row of matchbook matches.
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