This work began as a series of oil paintings — photographed at different stages, then layered in Photoshop. Each image is a record of process as much as a finished object. Painting is an act of mark-making and reduction. Each new layer transforms what came before: a colour altered, a mark absorbed, a passage that existed in one form before becoming something else.

 

In art, this is called pentimento — from the Italian for "repentance" — the traces of earlier work that survive beneath the surface, visible through what came after. Photography holds those moments. By shooting the work at different stages, I preserve states that would otherwise be lost — not as documentation, but as raw material.

 

I layer the images in Photoshop until different parts of the painting converge and overlap.

What emerges is a digital palimpsest: a surface that holds all its previous selves at once, where mark, colour, and memory occupy the same plane.