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Easily Touching Still

My dear friend Petra Kuppers and I are leading a “Practices of Hope” workshop this month, co-creating with others around the country via Zoom. Erasure, silence, absence was one of our practices this week.

If you’re looking for a way to create in a relaxing, non-stressful way, where you’re removing rather than generating and yet generating just the same, give this activity a try. It’s an apt way to work during these days of restrictions.

The poetry of erasure reveals that even though so much is being taken away, what remains can be even more meaningful, or meaningful in a different way.

News articles are so dreary these days, but often journalists home in on gloriously sensual and concrete details, like the feel of copper, stainless steel, and take out food bags.

Here’s mine:

From this USA Today article.

And check out this small survey of blackout or erasure art.

Posted on May 22, 2020 by DJ Lee. This entry was posted in Art, Current, Posts. Bookmark the permalink.
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