PALIMPSESTS OF LIGHT

Selected Works Only

Current Body of Work | 2025 - 2026, Australia & Northern Europe
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Palimpsests of Light is a body of work that traces folklore, history, and cultural lineage through layers of silk and pigment. Each veil becomes a strata of memory, layering marks that echo across generations, refracting through intervals of light and shadow.. What emerges is not hidden but revealed: visible threads of ancestry and story refracted through time and material.

 

The series unfolds in two expressions. The Living Archive (embodies living memory)  works dyed with natural pigments drawn from plants, minerals, and organic matter. Installation works as hanging veils, they remain responsive to the conditions around them: colours shifting, breathing, and evolving with light, air, and time, much like stories altered with each retelling. In contrast, The Enduring Archive (represents preserved memory) layers of silk stretched and framed with colour-fast archival pigments. These works resist change, embodying permanence, stability, and the act of cultural preservation.​

 

Together, they form a dialogue between transformation and endurance: between what evolves and what is fixed, between the esoteric layers of memory that move and those that remain. Suspended in veils of silk, the works act as palimpsests of folklore and time – shifting archives of what is both remembered and reimagined.