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CATHY ABRAHAM




My practice is deeply rooted in repetition as a material prayer. Invoking transformation and healing, these prayers address past sufferings that continue to haunt the present. Appearing as shadows in the overlapping ‘ghosts’ of colliding brushstrokes, such hauntings give form to otherwise formless traumas, the apparitions tracing the wound in its residue. My unfolding engagement with numbers, symmetries, and ritual action is meditative and devotional, a means of transcending the self towards an understanding of the interconnected, miraculous nature of all beings. (continue reading)




Spectral bones
Yielding to the shadow
Untethered
Ghost nets in the abyss of deep time
Soul dust and breath
Be leaf
Tears of life
Soul specters


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CATHY ABRAHAM