Song of Me and Myself

Sophia Le Fraga

Song of Me and Myself

New York, NY

Self-published

2011, gold painted “erasures” on paper series

Digital print of altered page from Whitman’s Leaves of Grass (Penguin 2005, reprint of the original 1855 edition). Image courtesy of Sophia Le Fraga.

Artist and author Le Fraga is focused on linguistics, poetry, and photography. She is the editor of No Issue on Instagram and has curated the zine Windows95. Her series of “erasure” prints is based on canonical American poetry. ”I feel like inserting my own authorship, as a woman of color, complicates and maybe even attempts to ‘queer’ the canon of literature. In keeping with that thinking, I’ve called this erasure ‘Song of Myself’.” Artist’s statement from Center for Book Arts website.