Accumalatory Traces (2024) investigates what occurs when the “everyday” is documented through various forms of archiving. Oftenest, the camera is used to bring banal, everyday experiences into focus to highlight their aesthetic qualities which go under appreciated. For this project, I want to highlight the everyday textural experiences that often are not reflected on, acts such as grabbing a glass of water, doing the dishes, touching a laptop keyboard, touching the foods we cook with, feeling the floor under our feet when we wake up, etc. Through the materials used, Accumalatory Traces broadens the concept of what a“drawing” is, as well as how traces often go unnoticed.

Every time we touch something we leave a trace at times visually perceptible and at times not. The photographs, rubbings, and accumulation of lentils all hold testament to how different forms of everyday objects, when put in conversation with another draw new symbolic meanings and question our perceived purpose of that material. A trace marks both the presence, and the absence of a certain object, the rubbings of my own bedroom floor are a spectre of my “actual” bedroom floor, now superimposed over the traces of the studio floor. Understanding the process of developing film, as equal in comparison to the mechanical, and chemical processes of making a rubbing, or food processing (as in the drying of lentils), this work creates connections and frictions between what is drawn, photographed, and arranged, in its reliance on light.