Rebuilt

Doesn't this term seems more apropos than the term recycled or re-purposed?

After all, when we make changes in our lives, we don't/ won't/can't start from scratch (despite the free use of the terms "reborn" or "born again")…we re-build on what we have.

So it goes with materials used in the making of art-the stuff is there for us to build on-in the case of "found" objects, we have an huge start, both physically and in terms of the 'feel" of the object, already imbued with the fingerprints of the ages, the old handlers and/or makers of the object…these items have history, even though that history may be an anonymous one. We are not the first to handle/use/own them.
Extrapolating, I can say that we build our lives on the shoulders of others. Mistakes and corrections have been made for us by those who have been here before. Sometimes, we choose to ignore what has been learned and "done". Sometimes, we opt to reject this knowledge out of hand and so we should as one size does not fit all.