What inspired the artist tom Phillips?

Tom Phillips uses pages of books to go over,

and he selects certain sentences he likes and picks them out.

inspired by William Burroughs's "cut-up" writing technique, Tom

Phillips bought a Victorian novel for three pence-W. H. Mallock's

1892 novel, A Human Document. He treated the pages with gouache and

ink, trapping the Words that interested him while scoring out

unwanted Words or painting over them. The result was A Humument a

Humument is a mix of human and document