Read Melissa Buckheit’s interview with Orlando White in this issue _______ Read Melissa Buckheit’s review of Orlando White’s Bone Light in this issue _______ |
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Uncolor Use paper tweezers pinch free the ink delicately like pin-bones
from a fish. Pull out stems, cross bars, ascenders, and descenders. Now, place the page inside a crucible, fill with
chlorine and bring to a boil. Add a measure of borax to help cleanse serif blotches. Place a lid atop of it wait
momentarily. When edges of type are anti-aliased
the limits of language restrain. In the meantime think of folio steam burns, its layers blistering lampblack, color fluid
discharging and then to liquid parching. Do not damage the surface—a
smudge is immutable. Even its dense sentences and paragraphs should begin to degrade
as the pulp loosens. Watch as the letter
disarticulates from its baseline like
a rotary joint unhitching from a spine through maceration: it’s in that moment
print attains a satori of blankness, permutes the paper of complete space. | ||