I composed the erasure sequence above for Naoko Fujimoto’s marvelous visual poetry blog: https://www.naokofujimoto.com/working-on/mining-the-dead-on-the-making-of-her-read-a-graphic-poem.
The concept was a hybrid craft essay: one part exposition + one part erasure.
The erasure is of a 1949 edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or a Modern Prometheus, from Halcyon House Press in Garden City, chapter 3 and adjacent pages. To read the accompanying essay and more follow the link above.
I don’t know what I’m doing here. Something about framing language.
The details above document the first iteration of Her Read, A Graphic Poem. I sculpted the book three times using three copies of the 3rd edition of Herbert Read’s The Meaning of Art. I did not intend to create art. Only, I fell in love with the textural expressions of the correction fluid— and the brush strokes called me to other forms of mark making.