Although Ebner is no longer a poet, she takes her inspiration from poems and looks for ways to include poetry within her photographic work.
This means that the choice between colour and black & white is always an act of discarding the color information of the images.
For Ebner, photography is about the lines of action: writing with blank ink on a world that's in shades of grey.
Ebner placed the picture in a jar of water and left it there while she embarked on a road trip to Nova Scotia where she hoped to meet Robert Frank.
Ebner shot a portrait of Walter Benjamin and exposed the picture to the same process: because of the solubility property of water, the photographs emulsion sloughed off, leaving behind a ghostly trace of the original print.