Fotograf Magazine

Nina Schacht

 n this project I am using the poem “graugrüne gier” by Kurt Schwitters and the whole poem is also the title of the project. I am simply visualising the poem line by line. Trying to interpret the words created by Kurt Schwitters and find a visual understanding of them and the way they have been combined. Kurt Schwitters was part of the dada movement or at least employing the dada ideas in his work. Dada which was rejecting reasons, logic and embracing irrationality and intuition. In his poetry Kurt Schwitters is playful, ironic and illogical. He grasps the nonsense and emphasizes it. 

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