probabilities

this collection was assembled mid-march 1998, a few weeks before "cutups 1-200."

the concept was simple - open books at hand at random and read out the first sentence, or partial sentence, the eye fell on. someone else transcribed. these lines were then printed out, cut up, and put in a bowl. a group of lines were pulled out and compiled in some kind of order. this final step is where any kind of creative discretion took place in an attempt to draw a possible meaning from the otherwise random texts.

written march 1998.

author website:

• japh