making strange

Feeling word · 7 styles

Familiar things altered past recognition. Outline and material kept, assembly replaced; scale and context detached. Of characters, everyday objects, images.

Styles

• Surrealism
• Conceptual
• Symbolism (Painting)
• Veristic Surrealism
• Weirdcore
• Vienna Gold Symbolism
• Conceptual Typed Card

Co-occurs with

• namelessness
• spectre
• surrealism
• incongruity
• strikethrough
• meaninglessness
• nonsense
• photocopier grain
• the absurd
• the bizarre
• anamorphosis
• appropriation

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