IX

Here the reader begins in abrasion and line erosion, as if the poet did not (completely) trust as if the poet did not (completely) trust words.

Cartloads of their bodies were thrown into the palimpsestina

and very close to a barbed wire fence.

This palimpsestina is always about This palimpsestina is always about our perception This palimpsestina is always about again and again

Nothing happens, there is no entertainment.

The
events
at
the
koppie
threaten
to
elude
our
perception
again
and
again.
Nothing
happens,
there
is
no
entertainment.

X

‘ The palimpsestina reveals itself again not (only) as erasure

Nothing ever disappears completely, evidence of the catastrophic: catastrophic: two glass bottles of densely packed dust

We can now turn our attention to preserving the small tin containing a tightly bound cluster of rusted staples and paperclips

and a fragment of found text is often more poetic

and more historically charged

than a phenomenological experience

of framing different images of emergence

such as the painting term pentimento

whereby previous marks or forms emerge

by the effects of the traces of erasure,

known as scriptio anterior (former writing),

due to the gradual deterioration of infinite layers of contents and contexts available when all perspectives invite their inevitable ruination,

the p a l i m p s e s t i n a is thus driven by impersonal spillage from the collective unconscious (“cease fire”)

the project is driven towards the unmasking of smothered bodies.

It is also an aesthetic-ludic practice, ie. the palimpsestina is driven by perpetual spillage from the container of remains to the forgotten bodies in traces of that process of disintegration present clues in the fragments for the future to witness and decode, since the palimpsestina is a coding system since the palimpsestina is a coding system Begin again.’ since the palimpsestina is a coding system Nicola Deane

black bodies invisible black ‘No more laughter, prepare for tears’. But this is immediately followed by laughing. They are laughing raucously.