Erasure

Erasure is a writing technique to avoid creating. Yet, in order to *do* erasure, you must create. With the thick, black ink of the censor's marker, with the unlikely rubbing of the pencil eraser, with the click of the backspace key, or the highlight and 'cut.' It may be by lack of imagination, or the explosion of the imagination. It is at once destruction and de-construction.

Creating Erasure

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To create erasure you must first start with text or image, start with something you hope to elude.

... [T]he proliferation of erasure as a poetic tactic in the United States is happening alongside a proliferation of our awareness of it as a state tactic. And, it seems, many erasure projects today hold these things as unrelated. - Solmaz Sharif

Yedda Morrison's Darkness erasures to invigorate un-seen flows of nature that are just as constructed as the racial dynamics of the un-touched book Heart of Darkness. The terra-forming of the colonial project extends even into its depictions of nature, when left alone, adrift by itself on the page.

Erased texts can also salvage meaning where life has been evacuated, or jettisoned.