Erasure

Graphite is sanded into paper, then removed — again and again — until what remains is not the original mark but the evidence of its removal: stains, residue, damage to the surface itself.

Erasure is a process-based work responding to cultural and political change through the repeated act of removal. Working with both abstract fields of graphite and loaded words — We, Them, Truth — the piece explores what happens when meaning is systematically eliminated. The violence is quiet but cumulative.

A 3×3 grid draws from multiple acts of erasure at random, collapsing sequence into disruption — images pulled out of order and placed in tension with one another, reflecting the chaos and magnitude of cultural change rather than its logic.

What remains is never clean. Traces persist. The paper holds the memory of what was done to it.

What erasure does to meaning — whether it transforms, diminishes, or simply reveals what was always fragile — is left open. The residue that remains is an invitation for the viewer to decide.

There are many images to this project but only one is being presented at this time. Erasure is produced in a limited edition of 30.

Ocean View, DE – 2025