I don’t often push apps but Sauntering Verse is so much fun and connects last week’s poetry and this week’s Dada artwork. As you move the app uses your location and creates Dada poetry.

The Dada movement was short-lived, 8 years from 1916-1924, but shook the art and literature world to its core. It began after World War I in Zürich, Switzerland with a group of artists and writers in a tavern called Cabaret Voltaire. Dada was anti-war/anti- establishment movement. It became a conceptual art movement who questioned societies’ ideas of the role of the artist and the purpose of art itself. A key element was that the artists could incorporate chance and/or everyday objects into their art’s creation which went against the meticulous planning that went into previous traditional art forms. This process of chance and “everyday” challenged the idea of “where” is art produced and “what” is art. Dada became the fertile ground for Surrealism and the post modern art era.

I love this art form for a lot of reasons but probably because 60 years later I found myself drawn to the punk/new wave movement. Punk also started as a creative outlet to rage against the establishment. Punk used collage, established new art forms that redefined where and what is art – graffiti, used irony with a sense of humor, and re-opened the art/literature/music world’s arms to all types of people/art forms with a creative heart.

P.S. For fun I have attached some Dada art/artists to your signs which may have some insight for you. Remember, when signs have * it’s a big week for you.

*Aries – The Fool – Last week the Knight of Wands reminded you to have an adventure without expecting an outcome, and this week The Fool is here tell you to continue this trend. This is not a week for big decision-making but for experiencing. The Fool card’s lesson is to be in your life without judgment. The main challenge for you all with The Fool is – can you subtle change your life without trying to push or bully your way through a new experience? Or another way to put it – are you trying too hard and not just doing. Cut With a Kitchen Knife by Hannah Hoch

Taurus – Ten of Pentacles/Three of Cups – Ok, this week is a two card week. You have had some heavy work the past two weeks in dealing with what your new paradigm is going to be. So this week you got two cards to tell you to sit back and enjoy life. The Ten of Pentacles’ lesson is to see all that you have accomplished so far this year and the Three of Cups is telling you to raise your glass with some friends and celebrate it. You got two out of the three celebration cards in the tarot deck, because you all needed to beaten over the head to stop and enjoy life before you get back on the treadmill. This is a Taurus challenge because you are both a lover of cornucopia of life and work horse, so how can you balance both?  Chinese Nightingale by Max Ernst
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