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The moment a word is denominated, meaning is inscribed, as if by force, onto the idea being represented. A push and pull comes into play, between the mechanics of calcification, erasure, transference, and perhaps even those of substitution. The result: a text-turned-image that builds, destroys, and reconstructs itself as naturally as eyelids flutter. This infinite movement between the building, destruction, and reconstruction of meaning is made physical in the palimpsest, as object and concept.

How is the palimpsest traditionally defined?
a very old document on which the original writing has …