Blots
The traces of what was, 2025Blots gathers the ghostly impressions left behind during the act of cleaning etching plates—marks formed not through deliberate drawing, but by pressure, residue, and repeated gesture. As plates are wiped clean, halo-like stains emerge along their edges, recorded on blotting paper typically discarded and unseen.
Once captured, these ephemeral traces are reimagined into layered compositions that hover between photography and painting. Once printed, each image is further developed with painted interventions—gestural additions that respond to and complicate the incidental marks beneath.
This series continues an ongoing investigation of overlooked materials and accumulated time, shifting attention from the object to its periphery—from the moment of creation to the residual evidence left behind. In these works, absence becomes form. Blots invites a reconsideration of what remains after presence, and how memory can reside not in the object itself, but in the space around it.
Once captured, these ephemeral traces are reimagined into layered compositions that hover between photography and painting. Once printed, each image is further developed with painted interventions—gestural additions that respond to and complicate the incidental marks beneath.
This series continues an ongoing investigation of overlooked materials and accumulated time, shifting attention from the object to its periphery—from the moment of creation to the residual evidence left behind. In these works, absence becomes form. Blots invites a reconsideration of what remains after presence, and how memory can reside not in the object itself, but in the space around it.