KateMacDonald

ONE  
                             two      three  
                                     for  
                                                 five 
               five

                                                                                    They would get smashed 
up, and  this was the very least of the bad things that would hap-  
pen.

crash  
crash

- kmacd

The Cut-Ups (2023) series is based on the artist"s own blackout and erasure poems, produced from pages stolen out of thrift store books for a friend"s 40th birthday. These animations explore the history and depth of collage by layering text over image in homage to its original Dadaist roots - and the groundbreaking beat poets that followed. Producing them as GIFs and minting  them as NFT editions on the blockchain creates an echo in contemplation of - and conversation with - the past. Everything old can be new again.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it  into something better, or at least something different.  T.S. Eliot