One more page from my paint-on-paper erasure of Moby-Dick. The text reads, "GIve me / science / to remind the / relics / and / justify / whales"
At my blog at jessicaroeder.com

Blog post from "The Other Whale," my paint-on-the-page erasure of Moby-Dick. The text reads:
In this business / another / person / is quickly emptied / until the deep will yield no more.
Now, the people in this / wild / oily gurgling / movement seize / the enormous mass / from the violent motions.

Third day of pages from "The Other Whale," my paint-on-the-page erasure of Moby-Dick. See the post at www.jessicaroeder.com/blog/p6cvkhp2m0zy05h9ki6cvmt0yr60kv
Text reads:
The lion
is
old women
out of sight as usual
watching
getting it by heart

Another day, another page from "The Other Whale," my paint-on-page erasure of Moby-Dick. Happy new year. The text reads: She presents the curious anomaly / not in use / diligently circling
Whole post at www.jessicaroeder.com/blog/page-389

A page from my paint-on-paper erasure of Moby-Dick at jessicaroeder.com/blog/page-108. I've been at a loss for words lately, except in fiction.
#erasure

Read Valeria Luiselli's Lost Children Archive! It's beautiful, sad, joyful, timely and timeless. And note the red post-it flags—a few passages to return to.

So much is (always) going on. I think about hometown Chicago often. And here's a mostly unrelated mini blog piece from jessicaroeder.com.

Just because: By Whale, my erasure of Moby-Dick, is a free EPUB or PDF at www.jessicaroeder.com/projects-in-...
Thanks to the Minnesota Libraries Publishing Project for access to Pressbooks. Hooray for public libraries.

We celebrate Austen and her sister Brontë's birthday on March 15. This is Austen. How I wish we could still smooch that forehead.