Gimme Shelter – Barry™
Assemblage, 4’H x 8’W
*“Gimme Shelter” stands at the crossroads of destruction and resilience. Barry’s intricate assemblage weaves together a fragmented world—burnt-out artifacts, cracked relics, abandoned trophies of life—and binds them inside the ancient protection of a Celtic knot. Amidst the chaos, there’s humor too: a certificate earned for eating something absurdly oversized, an ashtray once used during a different chapter of life. Every detail holds a private gravity. Every piece was once touched, used, discarded—and now finds shelter in the layers of memory and survival. “Gimme Shelter” is not just a title. It’s a universal cry—and a deliberate act of reconstruction.
About Gimme Shelter
In this fine art assemblage, Barry fuses personal relics, cultural detritus, and visual storytelling into a unified collision of memory and survival. A painted Celtic knot anchors the broken landscape: a symbol of interconnectedness that refuses to fall apart, even as the materials around it crumble.
From playful artifacts—like a certificate for a food-eating feat—to objects weighted with private meaning—like an old ashtray—every inclusion is deliberate. Gimme Shelter is both a map and a prayer, chronicling the absurdities, struggles, and salvaged hope that define a life lived fully, flaws and all.
Part of Barry’s Assemblage Fine Art Series, Gimme Shelter captures the instinct to rebuild a meaningful world from broken pieces—with humor, grace, and a refusal to look away from the imperfect beauty of survival.
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