Prisbrey’s Bottle Village, in Simi Valley California, is a key example of how the assemblage of objet trouvés can impact the personal meaning in form and thus community understanding of the terrain. Built from bottles, cement, and debris gathered from a local dumb, Bottle Village covers a third of an acre with ethereal structures ranging from buildings to gardens and wishing wells. Prisbrey recontextualizes discarded junk into new objects that carry a whole new meaning and perspective. In this case, she flips the meaning of the pencil, the ultimate tool for creating the art that is typically framed, on its head and makes the pencil the center of attention instead. She started the project in 1956 as a way of overcoming tragedies that she suffered, most notably the agonizing death of six of her seven children, throughout her lifetime.  Her bricolage is a form of physically and emotionally putting things back together.