PALIMPSEST

PALIMPSEST /ˈpalɪm(p)sɛst/ 1: writing material (such as a parchment or tablet) used one or more times after earlier writing has been erased 2: something having usually diverse layers or aspects apparent beneath the surface These images were made in places where belief, violence and meaning have accumulated or been reappropriated over time. Ancient sites, former places of worship, interiors, monuments and forgotten spaces hold memory. Emphasis falls not on documentation, but on the registration of residual presence. Understanding emerges through attunement rather than doctrine or historical narration. Traces are embedded in material form. Place is approached as a living palimpsest. Meanings are overwritten but never fully erased. Suppressed histories remain faintly legible beneath the present. Acts of forgetting, displacement and historical trauma continue to haunt contemporary space, even when their origins are obscured. An attempt to attend to what remains.