NuBurroughs – Barry™
Acrylic on canvas, 4’H x 5’W
Fragments of form crash into one another—hand, eye, pen, window, and shadow—captured in a deliberate storm of dissonant shapes and muted neon. Burroughs’ eye peers through the mosaic, steady but detached, as if watching the chaos unfold from beyond its reach. Lines slice through space like cut-up manuscripts, and planes of color both obscure and reveal the figure inside.
About NuBurroughs
In this fine art portrait, William S. Burroughs is not arranged; he is disarranged on purpose.
NuBurroughs mirrors Burroughs’ own creative method: dismantling linear narrative to reveal hidden meanings and unexpected collisions.
Here, the cut-up technique becomes visual—shapes slashed, reassembled, yet never fully healed—reflecting both Burroughs’ fractured personal myth and the deliberate sabotage of traditional storytelling he championed.
The result is a portrait that refuses nostalgia, instead offering a confrontation with the unstable architecture of memory itself.
Part of Barry’s NuHeroes fine art series, NuBurroughs reimagines the icons of cultural resistance through emotional memory, abstraction, and deconstructed myth.
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