"Bug Powder Dust"

Cut from four pages of Naked Lunch by William Burroughs, this work centres on a nightmarish typewriter assembled from fragments of the novel’s text.

Burroughs often described language as a kind of infection — something that spreads, mutates and takes on a life of its own. In Naked Lunch, words slip loose from narrative and reassemble themselves into strange new forms.

The typewriter becomes both machine and organism: a device that produces language while also consuming it.

Letters cut from the page form a line taken from the novel:

“Bug powder dust.”

In Burroughs’ hallucinatory world the phrase refers to a narcotic substitute, part of the strange chemical economy that circulates through the book’s shifting scenes and identities.

The papercut is composed from multiple pages of the novel and hand-finished in the studio. Each work carries slight variations in the underlying text from which it is cut.

Signed and editioned.
Limited studio edition of 20.

The artwork is A3 in size (297mm x 420mm)

Presented in a hand-finished black wooden box frame with UV glass.

Each Studio Release is cut and framed to order.
Please allow up to 10 days for dispatch.