Paper: The Surface That Remembers
Paper receives more than the image; it receives the moment. "More than a support, paper receives the trace of gesture, water, time, and attention." Paper is never only a surface. In my practice, paper is the first place where the work begins to breathe. Before the image appears, before the brush moves, there is already a relationship between silence and surface. What draws me to paper is its sensitivity. It does not simply carry ink; it receives pressure, absorbs water, records hesitation, and holds the rhythm of the gesture. Every touch leaves a different kind of trace. Because of this, paper is not passive. It participates. Over time, I have come to see that paper also carries memory. Not memory in a symbolic sense alone, but through its very response: the way it drinks, resists, softens, or reveals the mark. What remains on it is never only the image,...