Ancestral Map

“A lineage cannot be erased. It can only be forgotten — and remembered.

Traditional patterns emerge through layers of paint and textile marks. Geometry, colour, gesture. Each form is a fingerprint left by ancestors who made beauty from necessity. Nothing here is decoration. Everything here is memory.

We live inside modern lives that often ask us to forget who we came from. This piece disagrees. It insists that the pattern you carry — in your name, in your gestures, in the food that makes you cry — was drawn on a wall somewhere by someone whose face you will never see.

This painting isn’t about heritage as history.

It’s about heritage as a living body.

What pattern from your own lineage is still moving through you — and what part of it are you the next one meant to carry?”