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.