Emergence

Emergence is about coming into view, coming out of, or becoming known. It is a transformation to what one is from what they were.
In art, the concept of emergence can encompass many different ideas, a physical emergence, a spiritual emergence, or a psychological emergence.
An exploration of the way something can change from one thing to another, and art is a way that this change can be captured.

"[Art] can reveal what language must leave virtually unspoken..." Marc Mayer, Curator Albright-Knox Art Gallery
"Painting is a state of being...self-discovery. Every good artists paints what he is." Jackson Pollock

Fernando and Humberto Campana

These brothers - Humberto (1953-) and Fernando (1961-) Campana - are alchemists creating jewels from rubbish. They combine found objects and scraps to create vibrant and innovative design. These brothers transform modest materials into objects that celebrate the discarded and mundane...
The Campana brothers have a goal with each of their designs to transform something poor into something 'decadent and opulent'

Ingo Maurer

Ingo Maurer uses found objects and other unexpected materials to create beautiful lights.
Maurer is fascinated by the idea of creating the 'magical and mystical' properties of light. He plays with colour, brightness, and shadow to create luminous atmospheres.

Waste

It is the possibility of transformation and misuse that makes waste available to other systems of objectification. But you have to be willing to see and feel this. Inventing a new materialism involves a responsiveness to objects that is mutually transformative of both people and things. Waste captures the attention not simply of those in desperate need but also of those able to imagine different uses, able to reanimate it. This is where necessity meets creativity and where ethics meet imagination.
Hawkins. G., The Ethics of Waste: How we relate to rubbish

This extract from Hawkins' book is a concise explanation of the way rubbish has many possibilities for what it could become and it is not simply a dead matter. The transformation, or alchemy, of rubbish is limited to the creativity in the one who re-animates it. It can change when placed in the hands of someone who can see a new use for something that is regarded by society as waste.

Stuart Haygarth

Haygarth creates 'magical and evocative stories through objects central to [his] work.'





This chandelier style light installment has been compliled with 'hundreds of pairs of prescription spectacles'.
The artist's design 'draws an elegant and analogous line between the glasses' old and new purposes- from mundane objects which improved sight to a spectacular installation...'


These lighting fixtures are created from unconventional materials complied together in a way which creates something beautiful, and even practical. The way such unwanted materials can be arranged together to create an item which people will pay to own, or even see, is alchemic.

It is interesting to explore the way people pay for items they will eventually discard, and then see the way inventive and creative people can change this.

This chandelier is created with bottle ends, clearly giving such materials which are identified by people as ugly, a beauty..