Evidence of Absence is a series of drawings that began in 2011 and has continued to evolve. The inspiration comes from Marcel Proust’s idea that memories function like forgotten negatives; when triggered by the senses (or the developer), they are brought back into the light and become visible once more. The technique I use involves meticulously re-drawing my old negatives with tiny lines and hatching them on rough watercolor paper. This process is quite labor-intensive, yet it captures the random texture reminiscent of film grain. Once the drawing is complete, I photograph it and convert it back into a positive using a click in Photoshop. The final digital image is then printed as an edition of Giclée Prints. Throughout this work, I explored the contrasts between original and edited versions, slow and fast, positive and negative, and analog and digital.
Conte Crayon on Arches Aquarelle, 2011 – 2024
