Another good word

[subversivegrrl]

Bricoleur: A person who engages in bricolage; a person who creates things from existing materials, is creative and resourceful: a person who collects information and things and then puts them together in a way that they were not originally designed to do - from the French-language verb bricoler, meaning "to tinker" or "to fiddle" - the French

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[sarrabellum]

I love the word bricolage.

[subversivegrrl]

Did you know that word before? I like it more than assemblage for describing altered art.

[sarrabellum]

I did, actually; I came across it a few years ago. I didn't know bricoleur, though, and I like that quite a bit.

[subversivegrrl]

I got "bricoleur" from a NY Times magazine acrostic; the quote was about how in the American colonial days everyone was a bricoleur, because so many necessary items were in short supply and you had to re-use and repurpose a lot.