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Bucky and Fluff's Craft Factory

 

Bucky and Fluff are self-taught mass-producers of cheaply priced, multi-medium imperfections melding kid culture and nasty adult reality. The work combines simple materials from sporey junk stores and Value Village finery: dollar store glitter glue, moldy magazines, match sticks, felt and tissue paper. Each piece is an homage to the pre-assembled craft kit: paint-by-number, wood burning kits, and do-it-yourself string-art masterpieces. Using traditional domestic crafts as a basis, Bucky and Fluff assert their own urban twist. In a society where everything is packaged and sold it is important for individuals to create their own culture out of the affordable and overlooked materials that surround them. Believing that crafting is close to the spiritual, Bucky and Fluff have found inner peace through concentrated community crafting projects.

What is Bucky and Fluff's Craft Factory?

Two forces collided after Allyson (Fluff) Mitchell, born in 1967 in Scarborough Ontario, and Lex (Bucky) Vaughn, born in 1972 in Houston Texas, found each other across the 49th parallel (Lex is now a landed immigrant in Canada). Lex's amateur training was nurtured by box-top mail-aways and a serious study in huckstering. Allyson's formative years were spent in Brownie craft circles huddled over styrofoam balls and decoupage glue/flour mixtures. As adults their art is inspired by their huge collections of trinkets and momentos. When their work merged it became apparent the need to share their bounty with others. The factory launched into full production in 1998.

A word from Bucky & Fluff:

"The whole philosophy behind the craft factory is about making art in our apartment while we watch movies, sometimes crafting to the point of "craft back" when a heating pad becomes a part of our "studio". We are dedicated to luxurious and affordable art that makes people happy. Our factory produces films, stickers, pictures, postcards and anything else you can think of and we just can't stop. See us for factory franchise information."