Walking along the scraped, scratched, graffittied walls of Viet Nam, I am struck by their relationship to the palimpsest pages of illuminated manuscripts—the simplest definition being a manuscript that has been scraped and reused. The photographs in this series are printed on rice paper in the manuscript page size of 6" x 10". The palimpsest process is extended with hand painting using mixed media: pencil, charcoal, sumi ink, gold leaf, acrylics and watercolor—making each print unique. The images carry faint traces of inscriptions from an earlier time. Reading, language and interpretation is open*.

* misericordia Domini inter pontem et fontent; “the glories of the Possible are ours”