Alexis Ramos

Shared Light

everything I was 

everything I am 

everything I will be 

remains

in this shared light

Palimpsestic Echoes is a collection of experimental photograms exposed with cyanotype on to silk cotton fabric hangings.

This installation attempts to reflect the splintered experience of memory. Moving through and around the suspended splintered fabric, beginning to navigate through layers of time, light, and experiences. Working with fabric allows me to explore the porous nature of memory. The silk cotton echoes the fragility of these souvenirs, acting like a labyrinth by allowing variants of movement around fragmented clusters of layered light, continually impacting our perspectives. The single light box draped with fabric gives notions to ideas of recollection specific memories. Palimpsestic Echoes began as a self exploration, I wanted to unearth hidden layers of my existence that were being held within me; questioning how time lies within us, ever evolving. I wondered how time would evolve my experiences. The work began as a layering of spaces I’ve existed and shared with family through time. I wanted to revisit these memories with new eyes, curious what I would find. Eventually the images get cloudy and altered, much like our own perception of memories. Revisiting and reconnecting with time, only to continually warp and skew the moment.