My encaustic series Traces explores the invisible threads of intergenerational and ancestral memory. What do we inherit from those who came before us? And what traces of ourselves do we leave behind? I work with old family photographs, original drawings, and fragments of ephemera, embedding them in layers of wax that I fuse with a torch. As the wax solidifies, it preserves these images—yet it can also be carved back into, revealing what lies beneath. This tactile process of layering and excavation mirrors the way memory works: how it’s formed, revised, and retrieved over time.
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