Black Shores
by Texas Fontanella, Brandstifter
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How does the physical process of text erasure change the original meaning of the words, and what feelings did you experience as you pieced together Texas Fontanella’s fragmented poems?
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Considering that Brandstifter paired these modern erasures with vintage family photographs from 20th-century Vienna, how do the text and images interact to create a unified narrative or mood?
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The book was born from an artistic collaboration across the globe between Australia and Germany, using found materials from Austria. How does this transnational creation process influence the themes of memory and displacement in the work?
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