Burroughs alongside some of his 'shotgun art'
Artwork
An online gallery of his art can be looked at here
I really like when people branch out into other creative fields, I think that more often than not, it's just an extension of what they did before, but in a different way or medium.
Burroughs' artwork combines his fascination with firearms and weaponry, and has the same character as his writing - confusing, chaotic, straight out of his own head. I find the similarity/consistency very interesting.
An online gallery of his art can be looked at here
I really like when people branch out into other creative fields, I think that more often than not, it's just an extension of what they did before, but in a different way or medium.
Burroughs' artwork combines his fascination with firearms and weaponry, and has the same character as his writing - confusing, chaotic, straight out of his own head. I find the similarity/consistency very interesting.
Wood Spirits (1987)
Untitled (1988)
A nice summary of his art from this website: "The same imagery that recurs in hallucinatory novels like Junky, Naked Lunch, andThe Western Lands appears in the writer’s artwork: “thus, as in his literature,” says Pieroni, “we find war, cocks, violence, dirt, parasites, guns—junk.” In Burroughs’ hands the detritus of American culture—the contents of advertisements, foreign policy briefs, and seedy motel rooms—takes on an ominous, mythic significance that shows us as much about ourselves as it does about the artist."
Burroughs even designed some of his own book covers..
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