I’ve been experimenting with blending collages, asemic compositions, and photographs, and then applying a variety of visual effects – pushing deconstructed text and asemic art into what I call expressive abstractionism & revealed oblique existentialism. The compositions are, at least, aesthetically pleasing/interesting absurdist pieces of transformed text.
As an experiment in both Mass Media Principles and creative writing constraints, I have been composing Dadaist Collage Poems within the limitations of Mastodon Toots(text-posts). A Tweet has a character limit of 280 – which works well with micropoetry, such as haiku, senryu, and tanka. A Mastodon Toot has a 500-character limit, which allowing for hashtags provides for a longer composition.
Each Mass Medium has its own set of codes and conventions. When you choose to create within that medium those codes and conventions become an implied space that provides both possibilities and limitations to the creative process. The number of characters constrains the word choice, as does the choice whether to include hashtags. Also, the layout of the public post is slightly different from how it appears on the shared Timelines of the users’ accounts – in effect, creating different visual configurations for different target audience.
****NOTE: Images used in this blog post were from the shared Timeline Toots. Click HERE to see them on my public Mastodon.art site.
The text for the poems was acquired from a Random Word Generator and bits of word and phrases from an assortment of online articles. They were then processed and edited within the constraints of the Mastodon character limit. So far, I have composed three of these Mastodon Dadaist collage prose poems.
In an Alternative Reality, with an Alternative History, American_GunLaws wouldn’t be such a recurring issue. This absurdist deconstructed text of a map would not be such an accurate depiction of American gun restriction laws and contradictory attitudes surrounding them.
The above was originally posted on Mastodon.Art – links connect to Mastodon social media platform.
From the blog, Envisioning the American Dream:
There have been more mass shootings so far in 2022 than there have been days in the year ~ 27 alone have been school shootings.
Today is day 145 of the year, and the country has already experienced 213 mass shootings.
Two hundred and thirteen such attacks in 21 weeks. This averages out to about 10 a week.
glipnitch over glipnitch
glipnitch under glipnitch
glipnitch for sail
glipnitch in sognifs
sognifs under sognifs
sognifs forged sognifs
sognifs fizzed glipnitch
sognifs transformed tilt-jabs
tilt-jabs leave boats
tilt-jabs phased tilt-jabs
tilt-jabs over glipnitch
tilt-jabs congeal contfruntches
contfruntches flutter sognifs
contfruntches sognifs contfruntches
contfruntches glist glibnitch
contfruntches tilt-jabs chesfrunks
chesfrunks glibnitch chesfrunks
chesfrunks congeal chesfrunks
chesfrunks sail goats
chesfrunks flay skesfrupchitz
skesfrupchitz slay groats
skesfrupchitz conflate skesfrupchitz
skesfrupchitz inflate sails
skesfrupchitz tilt-jab chitzrupskers
chitzrupskers malign chesfrunks
chitzrupskers magnify chitzrupskers
chitzrupskers glow groats
chitzrupskers flow zrupterchulzt
zrupterchulzt inflate skesfrupchitz
zrupterchulzt glibnitch zrupterchulzt
zrupterchulzt glist sognifs
zrupterchulzt sognifs sreksruptzetters
sreksruptzetters sognifs glibnitch
sreksruptzetters tilt-jab sreksruptzetters
sreksruptzetters glibnitch glist
sreksruptzetters zrupterchulzt tzlutjerchtruper
tzlutjerchtruper glibnitch glow-groats
tzlutjerchtruper sognifs slerkrouphjethers
slerkrouphjethers glibnitch flow
slerkrouphjethers flower slerkrouphjethers
slerkrouphjethers chesfrunks flowers
slerkrouphjethers glist-over chesfrunks
chesfrunks flow glibnitch
chesfrunks glow-groat sognifs
sognifs sail glibnitch
sognifs glist-over chesfrunks
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No gluzxltches were mihgfizjyilexed in the composing of this Blitz Poem. The spelling & grammar software is in the corner pitifully weeping & gibbering a glibnitch over slerkrouphjethers in a glow-groat of chesfrunk tilt-jabs.
Those unreadable Liberals are putting Lyonessian microchips in the election terminators to control our captivated children’s ephemeral thoughts! #ephemeralthoughts ~ fallow fields of fallacies
Those hoser metonymy New Democrat bibliophiles are using tenacious robotic tardigrades to catalogue our ear lobes’ chaotic catharses !!!!
#robotictardigrades ~ canoodling Canadian Canaries Cavort in conjectures
The Dadaist Wiring Vaccine was developed by The Peripheral Existential Otherhood to implant magnoliaceae into patriotic ingeminated American bashibazouks to maintain Canadian Mosaic Motif Hegemony!!
#CanadianMosaicMotifHegemony ~ Babushka Battles Belligerent Battalions with Metaphysical Powered Pierogies – the wind slices the sky
Giant organic powered lasers from Aldorria Del Joiry are being used by the Decretal Terrigenous Illuminati to light enormous skald fires, so they can build a high-speed dialogic dustbin phoneme pants emulator!!!
#dialogicdustbinphoneme ~ daily delights take phosphorous flights of phantasmagoria
The Deadly Pompadour Loup-Garou Gang are gathering to distribute Laotian Lactation Debutante Lotion in order to launder Canadian Toonies in indiscriminate decimation of the #Mythosphere‘s Metamorphic Mirrors!
The National retailer, Lingua Franca, is using the asemic names of its picaresque particulate plagiarizers to capture and polymerize infants for the Pindaric Conspiracy!!!!!
Chrystia Freeland is in cahoots with Renée Adorée to genetically modify our Canadian cinematographic hinterlands so William F. Gibson can conjugate everyone with an enhanced Neuromancer!!!!!!
This Canadian version of Conspiracy Poetics is derived from MAGAlibs For the Whole Family. My other inspiration comes from Brian Lageose‘s Past Imperfect fables of an alternative Hollywood. Make sure to see his Crusty Pie March Madness Posts for absurdist satire.
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Implied Spaces 