Part of an evolving suite of drawings that catalogues poetry books dedicated to the author’s mother, this work is articulated in graphite on handmade abaca paper. Each drawing includes the shadows cast by the open book’s gutter, the subtle text bleed-through from the verso, and even sometimes the shadowed silhouette of the reader’s body. This precision collapses multiple layers of reading: the textual, the physical, the emotional.

This project reclaims intimate, often overlooked paratexts as material for reflection. Each drawing becomes a site of memory, language, and relationality, invoking the presence of the mother as a foundational pre-position to poetic subjectivity.

18 x 12 inches (unframed)