soft machine

Cut word lines — Cut music lines — Smash the control images — Smash the control machine

— William S. Burroughs, The Soft Machine

These are experiments from 2008 using software to replace pixel luminance with ASCII text characters.

I could give you a whole pretentious explanation providing a foundation for meaning, but… it’s not very interesting.

Later on, I would use some of these images for my Polaroid series.