Sacred Shring to the Seemingly Insignificant Thing	9 - 4 Friday
	Michael deMeng	$145

Student Level: All
Type of Workshop: Process and Project
Prerequisite: None

I once made a shrine honoring a singular Chiclet. That’s right a shrine to a piece of gum. Why on earth would I do that? Well that particular piece of gum was purchased during the Day of the Dead in Mexico from a little girl named Maria Lucia. The gum itself was of no consequence but to me it reminds me of the magical evening of parades, costumes, and music that immediately followed this transaction. Shrines have a strange ability of transforming even the simplest or banal of objects into something sublime and noteworthy. The structure itself is designed to create a sense of awe.

Your task is to find an object that is seemingly insignificant to others but holds great value to you, either actual or metaphorically. From this starting point you will use a combination of painting, collage and assemblage…then viola! The seemingly insignificant will be transformed into something magical and transcendent.

Students should bring:
Something to build your shrine from. This could be a box, a small cabinet, an old music box, or a pneumatic bank tube…just about anything. Your seemingly insignificant thing. This could be one object or multiple items.
Variety of found objects that might be interesting additions. Items like, dolls, watch parts, gears, typewriter parts, milagros, bolts, pieces of old metal, straps of leather, dried out spaghetti…anything. Look for things that might seem “shrine-ish” in nature.
Paint Brushes (a couple small detail brushes, and some cheap brushes (1/2 inch to 1 inch in size)
Matte Medium – fluid
Aves Apoxy Clay
E6000 adhesive
Dap Kwik Seal Plus (white) small tube
Paint (acrylic…preferably Golden brand…either fluid or heavy body will work) small tubes will be fine.
Quinacridone Nickel Azo Gold
Black (Mars or Carbon)
Titanium White
Pthalo Green (blue shade)
Dioxazine Purple
Van Dyke Brown
Quinacridone Crimson
Pthalo Blue
Micaceous Iron Oxide

Optional: 
Heat gun
Dremel
Basic tools – i.e. pliers, hammer, etc.

Questions? email Michael at assemblage@michaeldemeng.com
Website: michaeldemeng.com