The Palimpsest Rooms

The Palimpsest Rooms is a series of visual elegies built upon layers of erosion, silence, and memory. Each image evokes the fragile architecture of identity—faces half-buried beneath weathered textures, fragmented surfaces, and remnants of forgotten texts. These are not portraits in the traditional sense, but specters preserved in dust and pigment, in cracks and manuscript ash. The works explore the notion of interior ruins—emotional and psychological spaces where presence is partially erased, yet insistently visible. Like palimpsests, the figures emerge through strata of time and material, as if memory itself were trying to rewrite or reclaim what has been lost. Each face is part-obscured, part-revealed, resisting full disclosure while inviting close, meditative looking. These are rooms of stillness and rupture, of quiet resistance, of women who have become architecture, script, surface. This collection is not about storytelling, but about archaeology of perception—the way memory settles, decays, and occasionally flickers back into visibility.