A chance meeting, the beginning of a new journey. As I mourn the loss of a dear friend who started to travel on a journey with me I meet Tansy. We share an interest in collage and creative conversation. We will be making collage postcards to begin a conversation and see where it goes - watch this space. To start the journey I thought I would borrow poem from Kurt Schwitters to send us on our way.
Garbage Picking on Kaiserstrasse
"In Merz painting the box top, the playing card, the newspaper
clipping become surfaces, string, brushstroke, and pencil stroke
become line, wire netting becomes overpainting, pasted-on
wax paper becomes varnish; cotton wool becomes plasticity."
The butcher throws out little more
than bone chips and odd ends of string
knotted in blackened gristle.
The print shop's bin is bulging, though,
with the primitive authority of the alphabet,
the naked cyan of colour discards,
while the tailor's and ah the dressmaker's shops
trail scraps of gleam and shimmer down the alley;
the milliner's barrel runs over with ribbon.
If you're going on from here, be sure
to bring a strong bag or basket;
next comes the tanner's, the machine shop
and, ah paradis, the dump
where all the cast-off dreams are thrown.
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