Kiss Me, 2024

Acrylic, marker and texture paste on canvas

65 × 90 cm (25.6 × 35.4 in)

Private Collection

This work marks a pivotal moment of creative reclamation, produced during a stressful period of service-industry management that prompted an urgent return to a childhood painting practice. Unlike later iterations of the Palimpsestmethodology where early visual impulses are entirely buried beneath successive media, this composition preserves the transparent first layers of the artist's practice. The canvas operates as an open repository of digital and contemporary influences, assembling disparate motifs like the isolated anatomical mouth, repetitive text blocks, and appropriated graphic framing. The textual repetition functions as a graphic impulse rather than a literal diary, chosen to balance the visceral energy of the central form. By abruptly obliterating the upper features with a heavy stroke of pink-red texture paste, the artist documents a real-time, spontaneous rejection of her own rendering. Kept intact after a direct acquisition from the studio, the canvas stands as a rare, unaltered archive of the initial layers that now define a highly disciplined, multi-layered practice.