Digital Collage, 2024
The numerous descriptions of the beach in the novel "The Stranger" by Albert Camues reflect the various moods of the protagonist in the form of a psychogeography, a projection of his own emotional states onto the surrounding landscape. The boundaries between inner and outer experience, between encounters with others and self-perception become blurred.
I used the technique of erasure poetry to emphasise words and phrases from the beach description. I then entered these erasures into the AI image editing programme DALLE. The programme created images which I then edited and collaged.
The artistic method of Erasure Poetry emphasises hidden, suppressed and unspoken meanings in what is left by working with gaps and omissions.
The work was printed in: RE/VERSIONEN. Künstlerische und wissenschaftliche Verfahren der Un/Eindeutigkeit. Edited by Jamila Arenz, Veronika Darian and Jessica Hölzl. Berlin: Neofelis 2024, pp. 71-74.
