*Photographic Figuration* brings together works in which a photographic source remains perceptible while drifting into textile-mediated abstraction. Through single or layered sublimation transfers, the original image disperses into tonal veils that soften contours and register the subtle contingencies of heat, pressure, and material contact. The textile becomes a permeable image plane—responsive to light, marked by slight misalignments, and open to shifts that surface gradually through sustained looking.
Across these works, figuration is neither denied nor asserted; it appears as a quiet orientation within a more atmospheric field. Floral and arboreal origins provide structure, yet the emphasis rests on how photographic information settles, dissolves, or suspends within the textile. Together, they articulate an ongoing inquiry into the image as a soft, porous object—one that holds presence, drift, and material immediacy within a single plane.
