Brion Gysin

Brion Gysin 19 January 1916 13 July 1986 was a BritishCanadian painter writer sound poet performance artist and inventor of experimental devices He is best known for his use of the cutup technique alongside his close friend the novelist William S Burroughs With the engineer Ian Sommerville he also invented the Dreamachine a flicker device designed as an art object to be viewed with the eyes closed It was in painting and drawing however that Gysin devoted his greatest efforts creating calligraphic works inspired by cursive Japanese grass script and Arabic script Burroughs later stated that Brion Gysin was the only man I ever respected