Palimpsest.

A palimpsest is a manuscript page that has been reused after its original text has been scraped or washed off in times when parchment was scarce. However, this process of writing and erasure left its traces, enabling historians to study and reconstruct lost words and reflect the layered history of the material object. If the medium is the message, the palimpsest-esque process of the medium both obstructs, reveals, and enrichens this message. Lost and recycled personal writings—phrases, memories, and traditions written down with the intent to remember them—formed the starting point for a series of works, exploring the concept of layering these mémoires through collage, text, and the renewal of materials.

An exemplary example of the application of the Palimpsest concept is ‘Manifesto’ A written statement or a proclamation of one’s beliefs and aims.’

At the epicenter of an artist’s life is the never-ending need to rewrite one’s artist statement. Any artist can tell you how daunting this job can be. Personally, this has always represented a titanic task, not just because I must explain in a sterile vocabulary what is coming from a place of heart and vulnerability, but also because I must do this in my second language.

With Manifesto, I have attempted to enforce the palimpsest-analogy to this monumental scroll, not just because it contains every single artist statement -draft and final version- that I have written over the years, but also because it examines my personal development and the universal notion of change in art and artistry.