The Lazarus Corporation

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The Artist’s Notebook is my studio journal containing notes on my ongoing artwork and related research, giving an insight into my creative process and artistic practice. | The Cut-Up technique is to writing what collage is to visual art. Its recent use was pioneered by William Burroughs and Brion Gysin, and later David Bowie used it during the 1970s. Nowadays writers like Jeff Noon use it. The basic method is simple — write a piece of work, cut the paper up with scissors, and rearrange the pieces to form new phrases and new meanings. The best writing seems to be done almost by accident but writers until the cut-up method was made explicit … had no way to produce the accident of spontaneity. You cannot will spontaneity. But you can introduce the spontaneous factor with a pair of scissors. William S. Burroughs, RE/SEARCH #4/5, 1982 Obviously, using this method c | The Lazarus Corporation is a home for my (Paul Watson’s) artwork. As well as being a website, it is also an imprint, being th

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