‘The idea that all art belongs to everyone, to do whatever they’d like with it, is an idea with roots in the toolbox of white supremacy.’ New idea for me; I need to think about this a bit
I much prefer to gray-out the unused portions of text for my erasures from Pepys, simply because I think it makes it more interesting for the reader if they can also read the whole text. Jen Bervin did this with Nets, her erasure of Shakespeare's Sonnets - that's where I got the idea.
The concerns about appropriation are of course always appropriate, though I don't feel there's any kind of inherent violence to the practice. To me, the best analogy for what we're doing isn't erasure but sculpture.
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‘The idea that all art belongs to everyone, to do whatever they’d like with it, is an idea with roots in the toolbox of white supremacy.’ New idea for me; I need to think about this a bit
I much prefer to gray-out the unused portions of text for my erasures from Pepys, simply because I think it makes it more interesting for the reader if they can also read the whole text. Jen Bervin did this with Nets, her erasure of Shakespeare's Sonnets - that's where I got the idea.
Yes, this is such a good approach. I may play with that here, too. Thanks!
The concerns about appropriation are of course always appropriate, though I don't feel there's any kind of inherent violence to the practice. To me, the best analogy for what we're doing isn't erasure but sculpture.