Traces

This small sketchbook is a space for layering and blurring. The background is painted in bister to evoke the warm, antique tones of yellowed manuscripts and Renaissance drawings. Fragments from an art history book appear on the page: a hand, a headscarf, a piece of fabric and feet bathing in water.

The resemblance of these details to classical sculptures and paintings is notable, often featuring bodies preserved in parts, evoking broken ancient statues or fragmented frescoes. Like time, sandpaper erodes parts of collages, causing forms to fade and reappear. What remains is a dialogue between presence and absence: a reconstruction that is never complete.