Synthetic Cubism: Collage and Color

Picasso’s collage restores color and texture. Reality is assembled, not depicted—paper stands in for wood, rope conjures boundary, type fragments reenter the picture.

🔧 Materials

• Paper, wallpaper, newspaper
• Sand, rope, found textures
• Painted passages knitting parts

Display

• Shallow frames to honor objecthood
• Vitrines for fragile papers

$$ \text{Assembly Index} = N_m + N_t quad N_m=\text{materials},\ N_t=\text{text fragments} $$