These papers are blueprints of ancient graffiti, remnants of the documentation of graffiti in an ancient Egyptian temple. As objects in themselves they are beautiful — the calligraphic writing scrawled here and there across the sheets of paper are fascinating.

This history only adds to the depth of the piece as I explore the movement of the marks across the paper, deciding whether to incorporate or obscure them, expressing a mystery and sense of what it is like to be a stranger in a strange land.

 

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