An alchemist in the landscape : visualising illness-pandemics through erasure

Using the words of women writers, I DRAW (Depart Radically in Academic Writing) through erasure to visualise illness-pandemics. I rely on erasure as a method to craft poetry from existing texts, or carefully blackout words from text I have written using thick black lines to make a new text. I also make use of hyphens to craft erasure poetry from existing texts" hyphenating each word to DRAW them in close to each other. Either of these methods allows me to situate my ancestral past as a sense-making experience, allowing me to articulate my felt experience of illness-pandemics, past and present.