Ghosts.

Going through my beloved examination of memory and how it can be perceived visually I am constantly referencing Robert Rauschenberg's 'Erased de Kooning Drawing', 1953. After becoming interested in the idea that drawing is essentially making a mark Rauschenberg went to popular painter Wilhelm de Kooning and asked him for a sketch that he had done that he could erase. So, de Kooning, not being particularly impressed by the idea told Rauschenberg that he would give him one of his drawings, but it would be one that he loved and was in pastel so it would be hard emotionally and physically for Rauschenberg to erase. So, he went to work erasing and what's left is the ghost of an image that was removed. And the act of removing it was quite possibly just as challenging as the applying of it. Now, there are beautiful imprints and scratches that imply the presence of the past.