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Introductory essay by Alison Morris
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He saw the sunlight leave the grass like an eye suddenly closed.
Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor, 1993
No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim,
there are some things we can never assign to oblivion,
memories we can never rub away.
Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore, 2005
Erasure is never merely a matter of making things disappear: there is always some detritus strewn about in the aftermath, some bruising to the surface from which word or image has been removed, some reminder of the violence done to make the world look new again. Whether rubbed away, crossed out or reinscribed, the rejected entity has a habit of returning, ghostlike: if only in the marks that usurp its place and attest to its passing.
Brian Dillon, The Revelation of Erasure, Tate Etc. Issue 8, 2006
Blessed are the forgetful.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 1886
pulvis et umbra sumus
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, The Odes of Horace, 23 BC
In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.”
Rachel Louise Carson (1907 - 1964)