Erasure

Over many years much of my work has come out of awareness of what is being erased, personally and culturally, as well as what remains that we carry with us as residue. In my mind erasure is what we try to erase from memory while residue is what we carry with us, though often that distinction breaks down. Again, the "we" is both individual and collective.

The first work that I put into the category of erasure was a print done after stepping out of academia the first time. When an etching plate has finished printing an edition it is tradition to “strike” the plate, gouging a big X across the plate so that it cannot be used again. Much of the rest of the work I have placed in this category has to do with the loss of memory of a collective or individual past, loss of family livelihoods, and the human and environmental factors that are erasing our landscape. My ongoing question is “what are we erasing?”