Fragments of Dada

A dense sepia-toned photomontage assembles soldiers, industrial machinery, mechanical parts, cropped faces, architectural fragments, and scattered figures into a turbulent visual field. Repeated typographic snippets—especially the word “dada”—cut across the composition like newspaper headlines, while abrupt scale shifts and overlapping photographic fragments create a fractured, satirical sense of modern life. The work’s worn paper surfaces and archival imagery evoke the restless antiwar energy of early twentieth-century collage.