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Reliquum is a series of graphite frottages taken at sites where women artists lived, worked, and were buried. Working on translucent silk tissue so delicate it moves with any breath or breeze, I press paper to gravestone, memorial plaque, and building surface, kneeling at each site to register what was there through direct contact. The tissue is archival and fragile at once, ceremonial and vulnerable, like the visibility of the women it honors. These works are the residue of a pilgrimage.

During a residency in Ireland, this work expanded to include women who left no names to recover. The Famine Hearths are rubbings taken from the ruins of cottages abandoned during the Great Famine — stone hearths where women had cooked, and then had nothing to cook. The same method, the same contact, but the site itself is the only monument.