Bricolage, French for "tinkering" is the
construction a work from a diverse range of things that happen to be available.
This process, in literature and in art, is about shaping a text or the meaning
of an image by reference to other texts or images, making meaning within intertextuality. Derrida pointed out the necessity of
borrowing from conventions or heritage, which may be coherent or in a state of
ruin, so that all discourse is bricoleur.
Rather than figuring things out analytically, a bricolage approach is a way
to learn and solve problems by playing around. A bricoleur appropriates images
and text in ways that erase or subvert their original meaning.
In modern life, images. including photographs
are ubiquitous. They are both precious and almost worthless by virtue of their
number. We post them, we communicate with them, they are ever present and always surrounding us.. The collage is an
apt metaphor for postmodern notions of art-making, drawing upon the semiotics
of reusing and recasting signs and creating new referents and new meaning. In a
photograph, we attempt to capture the ephemeral fleeting moments of life as it
is lived.
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