I am tracing over current newspaper headlines. I only need to show the top part of the letters for the headline to be read. A headline captures our full attention for a few seconds and on the basis of it we decide whether to read the text below.
What happens when a headline is taken out of context? If I keep a pile of newspapers to use as packing material and months later glance over the headlines as I am using them I can find myself absorbed in the stories that escaped my notice the first time round.
I have used 'found text' to create poems. Now I am focusing on headlines to consider the physical act of tracing over shapes and the trace that an event leaves behind once the detail has been forgotten.
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