Sometimes, erasing things is more interesting than adding stuff. Kerry and Cecile’s works are in the tradition of Ronald John Radi Os, which was created by erasing selected words from Milton’sParadise Lost in order to create a new and different poem. Interestingly, there’s another good poem in there, but you only notice it by removing things, taking things away, erasing.
A short excerpt from Ronald Johnson's Radi Os.
The radiant image
the only
Garden
On the bare outside of this World,
no bars of Hell, nor
far off Heaven,
And Man there placed,
the sole command,
create
or love
(RADI OS O III)
The works are also partially inspired by Joachim Kranzen's 1974 semi-essentialist performance Foot at the Hulos gallery in Cologne, in which he removed one cubic foot of material from every sculpture he had made in the last twenty years. He then discarded the remaining parts of the sculpture and has kept only the 'feet'.
