The Strange Woman & Seven Diamonds Miners is a 684-page erasure of The Strange Woman (by Ben Ames Williams). Williams' strange woman is revealed to readers through the stories of seven men, and each man is given a section of the book. In my revision each becomes a stand-in for one of the seven dwarfs from Snow White. Mining the realms of pulp romance and fairy tale, the project presents the reconstructed text as both epic prose poem and an abstract rendering of line, paragraph and page — a palimpsest combining the fantastical humor of the revised text with the minimalist austerity of a color field painting. On another level, it's an attempt to find, redefine and/or give voice to the strange woman, the book's silent object and main protagonist.
Pages from The Strange Woman & Seven Diamonds Miners, 2009-2025, pigment prints, 22" x 30" each.