call
crush
fall
unchanged

flinging my body
higher

to cross deep vales of space

• 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