[2][3] In 1955, age 20 and inspired by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Italian Journey, she traveled to Syracuse, Sicily.

[4] Having made the decision to settle in Italy for good, Blank started working as a high school teacher, focusing on her own art at night.

Blank's technique in Trascrizioni, a cycle of works she started in 1973 and concluded in 1979, was to transcribe texts from printed material, such as newspapers, poetry and treatises, in black ink on transparent paper.

[5] Although Blank's work was exhibited at Documenta 6 in Kassel in 1977 and the 38th Venice Biennale in 1978, her practice experienced a period of relative obscurity until it was reidiscovered and reappraised in the 2010s.

[1] was staged at the Culturgest [de] in Lisbon and MAMCO in Geneva in 2019, at the CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, the CCA Tel Aviv-Yafo and the Bauhaus Foundation Tel Aviv in 2020, at the Museo civico Villa dei Cedri [it] in Bellinzona, the Bombas Gens [es] Centre d'Art in Valencia in 2021, and at the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art) in Milan in 2021.