The term "palimpsest" refers to something altered over time but still bearing traces of its past. This layered artwork fuses historical maps—hypothesized Indigenous routes and shifting river paths alongside 1960s freeways—into a complex terrain. Each pour adds, each blur subtracts. A final clay layer gestures toward hope: a future where we begin to unmap the colonial imprints of cartographic history.

Palimpsest was part of UnMapping LA: Concrete Landscapes and ReImagined Futures at Los Angeles Public Library, 2025.


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The term "palimpsest" refers to something altered over time but still bearing traces of its past. This layered artwork fuses historical maps—hypothesized Indigenous routes and shifting river paths alongside 1960s freeways—into a complex terrain. Each pour adds, each blur subtracts. A final clay layer gestures toward hope: a future where we begin to unmap the colonial imprints of cartographic history.

Palimpsest was part of UnMapping LA: Concrete Landscapes and ReImagined Futures at Los Angeles Public Library, 2025.


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The term "palimpsest" refers to something altered over time but still bearing traces of its past. This layered artwork fuses historical maps—hypothesized Indigenous routes and shifting river paths alongside 1960s freeways—into a complex terrain. Each pour adds, each blur subtracts. A final clay layer gestures toward hope: a future where we begin to unmap the colonial imprints of cartographic history.

Palimpsest was part of UnMapping LA: Concrete Landscapes and ReImagined Futures at Los Angeles Public Library, 2025.


Click on images below to view full screen.

The term "palimpsest" refers to something altered over time but still bearing traces of its past. This layered artwork fuses historical maps—hypothesized Indigenous routes and shifting river paths alongside 1960s freeways—into a complex terrain. Each pour adds, each blur subtracts. A final clay layer gestures toward hope: a future where we begin to unmap the colonial imprints of cartographic history.

Palimpsest was part of UnMapping LA: Concrete Landscapes and ReImagined Futures at Los Angeles Public Library, 2025.


Click on images below to view full screen.

The term "palimpsest" refers to something altered over time but still bearing traces of its past. This layered artwork fuses historical maps—hypothesized Indigenous routes and shifting river paths alongside 1960s freeways—into a complex terrain. Each pour adds, each blur subtracts. A final clay layer gestures toward hope: a future where we begin to unmap the colonial imprints of cartographic history.

Palimpsest was part of UnMapping LA: Concrete Landscapes and ReImagined Futures at Los Angeles Public Library, 2025.

Click on images below to view full screen.