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Using pages from the only book I remember seeing my mother reading during my childhood—Colleen McCullough’s The Thorn Birds—OR is a personal response to the gender expectations and undiagnosed mental health conditions that shaped my upbringing. By erasing text and building free-association images, invisible, unspoken stories are conjured through the original narrative. This series of mixed media collage erasures asks if we can we get closer to someone by imagining what they saw and thought when they read.
An illustrated essay I wrote about the process of making this series won the 2023 Rigel Prize and was published in Sunspot Literary Journal.
