Presence of the Past - Fanal Forest
Madeira, 2025

I remember entering Fanal Forest and feeling that the trees carried a kind of age that was impossible to ignore. Ancient, weathered forms that felt wise in their presence and asked for an immediate respect. At the time, I was reading Rupert Sheldrake’s Presence of the Past, thinking about memory as something shaped through patterns rather than fixed laws. It shifted how I looked at the landscape, and opened a more non-dual way of seeing, where the boundary between body and place feels less defined.

The 14.5 × 9 cm lith prints, made on expired bromide paper, carry their own instability - stains, dots, and fogging that become part of the work’s language, as if the paper itself holds memory.

Solo exhibition at STUDIO 28, London