burroughs l'artiste visuel

de la fin des années '80 au début des années '90, l'écrivain américain william s burroughs, (alors de retour au états-unis), s'est mis à la peinture.

récemment ajouté à la collection ubuweb, un court film offre un aperçu de sa technique de travail particulière (qu'il appelle shotgun art):

"there is no exact process. if you want to do shotgun art, you take a piece of plywood, put a can of spracy paint in front of it, and shoot it with a shotgun or high powered rifle. the paint's under high pressure so it explodes! throws the can 300 feed. the paint sprays in exploding color across your surface. you can have as many colors as you want. turn it around, do it sideways, and have one color coming in from this side and this side. of course, they hit. mix in all kinds of unpredictable patterns."