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Erasure poetry
2022

Text and tracing paper

During a writing exercise I had collected fourteen words on the theme of power. For two minutes I wrote about each of these words. By end of the two minutes, you had to write down the next word immediately. This created unlikley and unexpected changes to the sentences. On the finished text you applied the technique of erasure poetry. By leaving some parts out or highlighting other parts, you create a new text with a different meaning. After that experimentation began with the ways you could visualise this text. I soon got the association with punch cards: what is omitted contains the information. When I retyped the text into Word the grammatic or spelling mistakes started to surface. I kept these 'notifications' in my final work.

Pieternelle Maris 2025

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