sweetcorn – LostrittoReading

Something that stuck out to me in the Lostritto reading was the section about mark-making and editing. I remember Natalie Westbrook telling us in Drawing I that the eraser was a drawing tool itself. It made sense in that context since we would cover paper in charcoal and draw with the eraser. Lostritto’s declaration of more or less the same thing clicked differently for me. If I draw one thing, erase it, and draw  a second thing on top, that produces an entirely different thing than just drawing the second thing. It makes me think about the aesthetics of errors, which is a popular thing in the computational or internet or digital world with the glitch aesthetic. I think about the possibilities of attaching an eraser to a plotter after attaching a pencil and having a longer-term piece and the dialogue between that pencil and that eraser.