Chloe McFadden
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My Deleted Letters (2021)
My Deleted Letters (2021) is an installation which explores the idea of deletion, as key, as performance, and as desire. It observes the impossibility of the promise of deletion, as when we delete, the site of meaning not only remains but grows. Instead of being erased, it grows in matter, whether that be data, body, graphite, or light.
I recorded all of my deleted letters for an entire month and programmed a cutting machine to extract them from a scrolling piece of paper suspended above lights. Through this continual deletion, the original meaning of the letter is obscured, but new meaning, new letters and new patterns take its place. The letter is gone, but the site in which the letter was extracted and re-extracted remains, exposed. By recording, projecting, and re-projecting my continued deletions, mistakes, and left-behind letters – the work explores what it means to delete or leave something behind.