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Taylor Le Melle’s “UNTITLED [work-in-progress first draft towards a piece of writing on the work of Aslan Goisum]” is analytical, critical, honest, inquisitive, and at times pure poetry; inviting the reader to look at that which has been redacted historically and topographically, but also emotionally. The work does not follow a linear narrative structure, using non-chronological entries and timelines. Even the endnotes are non numerical, forcing the reader to read and reread as a way of cross-referencing or to be moving in tandem with Le Melle’s insight. The artist has the power to make atrocity familiar, yet Le Melle works against that in their text with the refusal to frame the content, keeping it unfixed as “first draft”.