Emerging from the material poetics of transformation, the Ritual Echo paintings trace the slow alchemy between natural pigment, time, and surface. Infused with botanical dyes—cochineal, logwood, pomegranate, and sumac—the works draw on traditions of craft and ritual, where each hue carries the residue of its origin. Many were created in the forests of Sintra, where the durational processes of preparing raw canvas, hang-drying in shifting light and wind, and allowing each stage to leave its quiet mark, attuned to the fragile beauty of what is imperfect, fleeting, and unresolved
Layers of pigment are coaxed into canvas or washi paper through scouring, soaking, staining, and the quiet chemistry of mordants, letting shifts in tone and texture emerge gradually. The work resists overt narrative, offering instead a tactile and chromatic terrain where presence unfolds through the memory of each gesture—inviting the viewer to encounter the surface as both a moment and its echo.