cowboy shot dead in the head by a native’s arrow? A trucker with his lonely heart forcefully removed? A simple disembowelment, or just plain having your feet firmly planted in Hell— with the Exquisite Corpse possibilities for creative chaos are infinite. Originally, the Exquisite Corpse began as a collaborative surrealist technique back as early as the 1920s. It actually started with collaborative poems, and later drawings and even Collage. I participated in this example (left) with Marc Nachtigall, Joe Bloch, and JoJo Peralta. Once a single piece of paper was folded into fourths, I began by drawing the head of the corpse, leaving the neck lines near the fold at the bottom. This allowed Marc to begin drawing the upper torso once I hid my composition by folding the paper over. Marc would then complete his section of the drawing leaving torso lines at the bottom if his section, folded the paper over again, and passed it to Joe to draw the lower body. Once Joe is done and the paper is folded over once again the final panel is given to JoJo to complete the legs
