Christian Verdun is an American artist best known for his work on the

cut-up The cut-up technique (or ''découpé'' in French) is an aleatory literary technique in which a written text is cut up and rearranged to create a new text. The concept can be traced to the Dadaists of the 1920s, but it was developed and popularized ...

Burrough's style poetry collag
Paradox
In 2010, he released another poetry assemblage utilizing the style of the previous work titled escape. Christian is currently attended

UC Davis The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university near Davis, California. Named a Public Ivy, it is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The institut ...

Paradox

Paradox is a cut-up poetry collage forming a picture of

Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln ( ; February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the nation thro ...

being Assassinated at

Ford's Theater Ford's Theatre is a theater located in Washington, D.C., which opened in August 1863. The theater is infamous for being the site of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. On the night of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth entered the theater box ...

. The piece took roughly 3 years to complete. It is composed entirely of magazines which were obtained for free or dumpster dived from book stores. The name is derived from the literary device, the paradox is an anomalous juxtaposition of incongruous ideas for the sake of striking exposition or unexpected insight. It functions as a method of literary composition - and analysis - which involves examining apparently contradictory statements and drawing conclusions either to reconcile them or to explain their presence.http://www.vcstar.com/news/2009/jul/26/ventura-artists-collage-is-open-to/

Escape

In 2010, Christian Verdun finished his second piece escape which was done using the same style of his previous work. He continued the trend of using pictures of major historical significance. However this time he moved to mixing French and English text, presumably because of the French colonization of Vietnam. This image is much smaller measuring 12 inches by 12 inches.

Anonymous

In 2013, he finished his third 11x8 inch piece anonymous, created from words cut from the comic book

V for Vendetta ''V for Vendetta'' is a British graphic novel written by Alan Moore and illustrated by David Lloyd (with additional art by Tony Weare). Initially published between 1982 and 1985 in black and white as an ongoing serial in the British antholog ...

which were remixed back together to form a picture of V wearing a

Guy Fawkes Guy Fawkes (; 13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606), also known as Guido Fawkes while fighting for the Spanish, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics involved in the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. He was born and educated ...

mask.

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