Michael deMeng is an assemblage artist who travels the world teaching and creating mixed media shrines. He has exhibited throughout the world with is unique style of “shrinalism”.  His book, “Secrets of Rusty Things”, published by North Light Books was released in May of 2007.

Artist statement:
My work is about transformations. It is about the transformation of the common into the sacred. Discarded materials find new and unexpected uses in my work; they are reassembled and conjoined with unlikely components, a form of rebirth from the ashes into new life and new meaning. These assemblages are metaphors for the evolutions and revolutions of existence:  from life to death to rebirth, from new to old to renewed, from construction to destruction to reconstruction. These forms are examinations of the world in perpetual flux, where meaning and function are ever-changing.