Bricolage and Braconnage

Bricolage and Braconnage are tactical methods of creating and thinking. They are ideas that are made up as you go, not planned beforehand. It's more of a day-to-day method rather than careful thinking ahead.

In the article, bricolage is defined as "do-it-yourself" and braconnage as "poaching". Bricolage is also defined as "looking backward and forward, like the clicking back and forth of Friedman's metronome, as well as the formal strategies it entails, persists today in much contemporary work" and "a contradiction, a hodgepodge, a stitching together or distinct cultural forms." 
Braconnage is spoken about in the article as, "braconnage relies not on established modes of reading, in which readers passively absorb the text before them, but is, rather, a dynamic process in which the readers as braconneurs establish their own routes through the given material with what de Certeau calls an 'artisan-like inventiveness." 

From what I understood, bricolage is basically creating a sculpture from items that are readily available, like pencils in Friedman's work. It can also be something that is produced in bulk (like pencils) or something that most would simple throw away (Such as Friedman's masking tape sculpture). It can also be spontaneous, or not pre-planned. This idea reminded me of Andy Goldsworthy when he was creating his pieces in the video we watched. Most of his materials are common and its not difficult to gather many of the same object (like the flowers or sticks).