Laura Hudson

Paired right back to line and wash on a rough surface, functional sacking disguises the importance of The Book of rules. It’s pages are blank, the rules are hidden, the book is meaningless to you or I but to those who apply the rules it is everything and nothing. Nothing that can be countered yet everything that can be conjured when needed to control you or I. The gatekeepers book is a hefty tomb of unwritten rules that shift and obfuscate with ulterior facts. Barely visible but weighted with history and privilege.

There is no such thing as a blank slate the past always seeps through. As writer Brian Dillon suggests erasures always leave their mark: ‘there is always some detritus strewn about in the aftermath, some bruising to the surface from which word or image has been removed, some reminder of the violence done to make the world look new again.’ (Dillon, 2006)

Ann Tamaya

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