Vestiges is a collection of large-scale mixed media works exploring excavation, rupture, material memory, and human presence through heavily textured abstract surfaces.
Constructed with layered acrylic, cement, sand, jute, stone, and mineral pigments, the works evoke unearthed relics shaped by erosion, collapse, and geological pressure. Rather than functioning as traditional compositions, the surfaces behave like exposed terrain — fractured, weathered, suspended, and partially revealed.
Embedded stones, torn fibers, unstable edges, and eroded textures suggest archaeological remnants caught between preservation and disappearance. Areas of exposed jute intentionally resist refinement, allowing the works to retain the raw physicality of excavation sites, deteriorating walls, and fragmented structures.
As the collection unfolds, abstraction gradually shifts toward emergence. Within the central work, the accumulation of stone and sediment begins to suggest a buried human presence surfacing through the material itself — suspended between excavation, memory, and apparition.This transition culminates in Tara, where the feminine presence emerges from the surrounding erosion as though reclaimed from the material itself.
The restrained palette of ash, charcoal, limestone, dust, and earth tones reinforces the sensation of age and sedimentation, while the tactile surfaces blur the boundary between painting, artifact, landscape, and human trace.
Rather than depicting specific places or narratives, Vestiges investigates what remains after rupture — how memory, identity, and human presence become embedded within material itself.
The collection reflects an ongoing exploration of erosion, transformation, and reconstruction, where abstraction becomes a form of excavation and surface becomes evidence of time.
