ERASE / THE PAST

The red letters, “ERASE”, are recognizable not as a superimposed fragment, but in the photograph itself. A black surface is adjacent to them; as if a part of the black area had jumped over the white margin, the photograph has been cut into by a black bar. A series of eight works make for a confusing and irritating game. The letters of “ERASE’ get larger and larger, while the photograph remains the same. The reverse is true of the works on the Eastern side.

Doris von Drahten 1992