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with additive and subtractive techniques. Ruff's primary interest in the materiality of paper and text, often involves burning, cutting, scraping, sewing and painting over newspaper and other printed media, leaving fragments of language and meaning, open to interpretation. The removal and altering of text and photographic image in her work emphasizes what is missing in biased and historically obscured narratives, with particular attention given to social justice issues concerning women, children and immigrants.
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From an early age Ruff developed a reverence for books, inspired by her grandparents’ scrap paper company in
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Ruff juxtaposes the contrast of positive and negative space with the removal of text to emphasize redacted and otherwise obscured histories. Her work addresses world events by responding to dominant narratives found in news headlines. She began using burning treatments on paper after the
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