Project: Black Out Poetry - Using newspapers and black markers we created visual poems, emphasizing the idea of creating art/poetry by ‘taken away’ from the source (in this case, the newspaper page) to discover a completely original and new work. Searching the body of the text is a bit like a treasure hunt, a surprising source of material that can bring a different meaning, a voice of one’s own to what otherwise looks like any typical sheet of newsprint. Using the marker to first select and circle the words we want to keep and then to blacken, cross out, the words and images that we don’t want, the clients discover a completely new visual text of their own creation.