The family album is the family diluted, it’s one part reality and seven parts water. A water made up of false projections, made up of “I’m fine” and “Everything’s great”. Little lies told to others to convince otherwise.

Palimpsest is to be considered an alternative to the photographic family album. It is a suggestion that the trace of a family is embedded in the environment of the home, engraved into the furniture, the dining table where a family breaks bread. The work rejects the photograph as a record of the family due to a lack of authenticity, proposing the truest forms of representation lay outside of man’s mediation. 

Taking the form of a mixed media installation Palimpsest makes use of a sound piece as the primary element of the work. The composition of the sound piece at the heart of the work was dictated by information taken from the surface of the dining table also featured in the installation. The dining table plays the role of the camera in this alternative family album, its surface absorbing the impression of a family, the removal of human intervention allowing for a true reflection.

The work surveys the landscape between the romantic and the scientific, with the fabrication being determined by advanced machinery and complex software. Precision is, at times, beyond that comparable to any human intervention.