Besides the notes and ideas I had came up with for how I could approach this (see prev. post), I didn't do any planning. This is very rare for me, but I thought that it would be best just to go for it.
I wanted the tone to be messy, sporadic, if not a little chaotic. Over-planning could have made that difficult to achieve.
I went into self-imposed isolation in the other room, and listened to Burroughs' spoken word album to get immersed in the vibe. No pencil, no prep, I just churned out a stack of ink drawings based on motifs, and things I associate Burroughs' world with.
I then took bits and pieces to the copier, tinkered around with the contrast settings, and made multiples of the drawings as well as some paper textures.
Original collage pages (not in final order)
After sifting through all of the copied material, cutting it up and re-arranging, I started to set out the pages for my zine. Once I was happy with the layouts I pasted them down on to A4 sheets (which would contain 2x pages per side).
The only thing left to do was to photocopy the originals to make the pages appear flatter/more blended.
Copies of the finished zine
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