Pigment prints
Rome is a place of collision. It’s a city of surfaces, an accumulation of layers and juxtapositions. Sometimes coexisting, other times effacing one another.
Palimpsest, which refers to historical manuscripts where older pieces of writing have been erased to make way for newer ones, is a search for complexity and layering in the landscape. I want to locate instances where the residues of time, history, and human experience compress together within the frame; sites where antiquity and modernity collide, heightening the tension between historical preservation and everyday life. Beyond simply documenting these phenomena, I capitalize on the camera’s predisposition toward flattening and compression as a way of drawing symbolic associations. The photograph, much like the palimpsest itself, is a subjective record – a constellation of ideas on a flat surface.
Palimpsest, which refers to historical manuscripts where older pieces of writing have been erased to make way for newer ones, is a search for complexity and layering in the landscape. I want to locate instances where the residues of time, history, and human experience compress together within the frame; sites where antiquity and modernity collide, heightening the tension between historical preservation and everyday life. Beyond simply documenting these phenomena, I capitalize on the camera’s predisposition toward flattening and compression as a way of drawing symbolic associations. The photograph, much like the palimpsest itself, is a subjective record – a constellation of ideas on a flat surface.