Memory and Forgetfulness – Cyanotype & Egg Tempera

This body of work emerged during my residency at RAW Labs, where I investigated the act of remembering as a physical, visual, and emotional process. Each painting in the series explores memory not as a static image, but as something layered, erased, rewritten, and ultimately re-felt through the surface.

Working with sustainable techniques—cyanotype, egg tempera, handmade pigments, and natural binders—I approached the canvas as both archive and battlefield. The blueprints of memory appear and dissolve: gestures are added and concealed, text is overwritten, images are reworked. Through this process, the paintings become palimpsests—sites of recollection and forgetting.

The figures emerge and vanish in cycles. Some works are dominated by handwritten fragments, referencing forgotten letters or inner monologues. Others evoke an anatomical presence, where memory resides in the skin, bones, or muscles. In the final gesture, a few of the paintings are deliberately washed away, leaving only ghostly traces behind.

Together, these works question how we hold onto what we know, and what it means to let go.

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