ERASED DISASTER GIRL

I made a number of artworks that explore the limits and very definition of art. These works recall and effectively extend the notion of the artist as creator of ideas, a concept first broached by Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) with his iconic readymades of the early twentieth century. With ERASED DISASTER GIRL (2021), I set out to discover whether an artwork could be produced entirely through erasure—an act focused on the removal of marks rather than their accumulation.

I first tried erasing my own works but ultimately decided that in order for the experiment to succeed I had to begin with an artwork that was undeniably significant in its own right. The title and work question whether any remnants from the original work remain, and to what degree.