KateMacDonald

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it didn"t seem  
that day when I saw him in the spring  
that I loved him as much as I did  
- 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