A show about poetically reducing the number of words in circulation, while creating new poetry in the process. Erasure is the act of removing – whether it is words, image elements, or things – from extant artifacts. What remains is not only more interesting, but does more with less.
'Less Is More' was an international group exhibition curated by Bill Jeffries and Ariana Kelly. It took its cue from Tom Phillips's extraordinary ongoing erasure/painting project, A Humument. For the first time ever, all 390 pages of one version of that work were shown, along with “erasure works” by 23 other artists and poets.
The Capilano Review will publish a special issue on erasure on the occasion of this exhibition.
I presented three works between the gallery and publication, and participated in the launch symposium on eraure poetics at Simon Fraser University.
