hello, i have a new  hobby, creating houses out of matches
that is neat,  David Mach (born 18 March 1956 in Methil, 
so is he the one that started it all?
yes he is  Mach's artistic style is based on flowing assemblages
i just like gluing matches together to make houses, did not know if there was any artistic value to it
he was know for his odd styler.  Typically these include magazines,vicious teddy bears,newspapers, car tyres, match sticks
okay, so he is an artist who takes ordinary stuff and makes art out of it
assembled from an old truck and several cars surrounded and subsumed by about 100 tons of magazines, individually arranged to create the impression that the vehicles were being caught in an explosion of flames and billowing smoke.
An early influential sculpture was "Polaris," exhibited outside the Royal Festival Hall, South Bank Centre, London in 1983. This consisted of some 6000 car tyres arranged as a lifesize replica of a Polaris submarine. Mach intended it as a protest against the nuclear arms race meant to stir controversy. A member of
David Mach
David Mach (born 18 March 1956) is a Scottish sculptor and installation artist.
Life and work.
Mach was born in Methil, Fife.
His artistic style is based on flowing assemblages of mass-produced objects. Typically these include magazines,vicious teddy bears,newspapers, car tyres, match sticks and coat hangers. Many of his installations are temporary and constructed in public spaces.
One example of his early magazine pieces, "Adding Fuel to the Fire", was an installation