# Dada × Merz — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=dada+merz
# Dada carries the structure. Merz appear as accents, each further back than the last.
# Style descriptors only. Never imitates a specific artist, studio, brand or work.

An original image that takes its structure from Dada (Style, 1916–1920s) and its accent from Merz (Style, 1919–1948). Structural cues: Rotated type; Fragments of sound; Collisions of scale; Unbalanced margins. Accent cues, used sparingly: Pasted refuse such as tickets and wrappers; Fragments of torn type and numerals; Diagonal axes of construction; The colour of aged paper. Composition: Keep one reading path; rotate and sever the rest. Type and lettering: Collide weights, directions and cases in one plane. Let one material quality come from the second style: Aged tickets, wrappers, stamps and torn print, glued with visible edges. Mood: Rebellion, Play, Exhilaration, Technology, Nostalgia. Color: build on #efe6d0, #d7362f, #161513 with a single accent drawn from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615. Constraints: do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. Produce an original composition in the general period languages described above.

# Where the two fight
# - Both belong to Avant-garde, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable.

# Cautions carried from each entry
# - Dada: Not decorative messiness. Decide which authority or custom you are objecting to.
# - Merz: Picking images of junk from a stock library erases the history the found object carries and leaves applied grunge. Fragments are not nostalgic decoration, they must hold the axes of the composition.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/dada/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/merz/design.md