‘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.
‘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.
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