MOVE ON

double sided luggage tags created as a response to Schwitters

 Move on (front)

Move on (back)

In 1936 Schwitters fled Hanover to Norway and then from Norway to Britain where he was interred on the Isle of Man as a German alien. Upon release he resided in London and Ambleside. He was an outsider creating a new type of art with collage and poetry.

These luggage tags convey a sense of movement and displacement. I have deliberately chosen a heavily patterned print as background onto which I have superimposed black and white images and modernist text in the style of the 1940s - the time when Schwitters was in Britain. The found text refers to travel and some nonsense phrases in Dada style.