Kazimir Malevich. Suprematist Composition: White on White. 1918

 

We’re a big fan of erasure here at Archipelago: the deliberate censoring of certain words of text to reveal a new meaning. The new creation combines literature with visual arts and can also subvert or reverse the meaning of the original. Erasure is, in a way, a kind of translation. In tribute, we’ll devote a few posts to some of our favorite erasures.

 

The first:

 

Mary Ruefle, Little White Shadow (Wave Books, 2006):

 

 

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