The tangle of silhouettes, scattered letters, snatches of music, and old-world vignettes, Gutenburg Collage is thought articulated in A Revolution in Language.
According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art perspective, artists in movements like Futurism, Dada, and Lettrism shattered conventional linguistic order and conventional syntax to create works where letters, typographic forms, and images drift across the surface of the page in ways that are meant to be both seen and read, heard and felt rather than simply understood in a linear, grammatical way.
I created this collage from Gutenburg book images with that impulse: text and symbol refuse their usual roles as tidy conveyors of meaning, and instead dance and collide across the space — like letter in a Futurist parole in libertà that have escaped the sentence and whirl about the page in visual poetry.
It is, in other words, a revolution in language made visible, where the familiar (letters, musical notes, figures) is rearranged into something dynamic, fragmented, playful, and open to multiple interpretations — an image-laden poem of shapes and sounds, not a straightforward story.
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