Thursday, 29 March 2018

what brown can do for you


From my archives. I poked around and found this: it's not Merz, but maybe it has a bit of the Merz buzz. Now I'm going to immerse my brain in bonafide Merz and see what pops out!

BTW, the title of this collage is, or was, a slogan of the United Parcel Service.

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  1. Nice image, Fi. LOL I remember that slogan for UPS!! I'm telling you this challenge is HARD for me to wrap my head around. I was on a phone call with a friend and we chatted for about and hour and a half and all the while I was ripping up a 1864 Peterson's Magazine (which was a publication for women focused on fashion and topical stories) and looking for other materials to put together for a "Merz style" collage and it was ultimately hard to commit to pasting to the piece of cardboard I found. I am a pretty structured collagist and I have found it hard to be abstract. I will revisit the cardboard and pieces of paper tomorrow and see what I can create.

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    1. I think we should make Merz collages—if that's what we choose to do—of our own time, not necessarily the early twentieth century. As for the abstract issue, that's why I said it could be an open-theme week. I've noticed that theme choosers often finish up with one that is open to anything. So if you want to make a collage about spring, whatever, just do that instead of a Merz. This blog is about having fun, not banging our heads against the wall. =smile=

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    2. You are spot on. I think I will try another using the spring thing. But for now I just posted the piece I had been working on during the long phone call.

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  2. In my eyes it is Schwitters´ style - good work, FI.

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  3. Very nice - I'm sure Kurt would approve!

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