rubbing out

And as our eyes become even more accustomed to this non-ageing, this rubbing out of character and past life from every famous face, we normalise it.

His government and its allies have been changing place names to Hindu from Muslim, rubbing out historic Muslim figures from textbooks and celebrating lynch mobs who murdered Muslims.

McPherson looked at how the redevelopment of the city gradually and inexorably started rubbing out the physical traces of the original route of the wall, of its watchtowers, barbed wire and no-man’s land.

Owens had Japan-Russia on opening night, and drew jeers from the partisan crown after rubbing out a Kotaro Matsushima try because the Japan winger dropped the ball reaching for the line.

A bench attached to the sculpture will give people the opportunity to contemplate, and visitors will have the chance to create a rubbing out of a mermaid woodcut designed by Darshana Bolt.