The Cut-Up Poetry Experiment.
The last year or so I’ve been fascinated by cut-up poetry and this weekend I decided to put myself to a test, to create a poem directly for my YouTube channel. As a Tarot reader and Randonaut myself I’m interested in how the intuition works, and how the subconscious comes in to it all — what can I create through randomness that directly speaks to myself in the past, present and future?
Through cut-ups I’ve personally found yet another way to work with myself, and shape into this universe I’ve created so far in life — and still creating more of for every moment I exist. Here’s a few thoughts for those who never tried it before:
- Quantity. Use a whole book, or a lot of text, as much as you can handle at the moment. The probability to get something interesting out of it will be higher.
- Your own stuff. Yeah, use texts you’ve written yourself, as it will also connect the material to the person you are now or have been — or will be.
- There’s no rules except randomness. If you have to move around a few sentences or words, do some translation so the source fits your intended result and so on. Everything is fine. As long as you create
- Share. According to me art don’t exist if there’s no audience. Well, you are your own audience, but the power of it will always come when you involve others.
Good luck. Let me know if you have something you want to share, feel free to comment or link! I would love to see what will come from your imagination!
All the best,
Fred
