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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

A Handful of Dust I-III (Soul dust Tryptich)
Neshama, Chaya and Yechida
2024
Gold pigment, acrylic and gesso on Italian cotton canvas
180 x 270 cm

Soul dust Dyptich
2024
Gold pigment, acrylic and gesso on Italian cotton canvas
180 x 180 cm

Copper dusted miracle split (dyptich)
2025
Copper pigment, breath and acrylic on Italian cotton
180 x 180 cm

Silver spring 5 grams soul dust
2025
Silver pigment breath and acrylic on Italian cotton
126 x 180 cm

A Handful of Dust I-III (Soul dust Tryptich) Neshama, Chaya and Yechida 2024 Gold pigment, acrylic and gesso on Italian cotton canvas 180 x 270 cm

Soul dust Dyptich 2024 Gold pigment, acrylic and gesso on Italian cotton canvas 180 x 180 cm

Copper dusted miracle split (dyptich) 2025 Copper pigment, breath and acrylic on Italian cotton 180 x 180 cm

Silver spring 5 grams soul dust 2025 Silver pigment breath and acrylic on Italian cotton 126 x 180 cm

A Handful of Dust I-III (Soul dust Tryptich)
Neshama, Chaya and Yechida
2024
Gold pigment, acrylic and gesso on Italian cotton canvas
180 x 270 cm

Soul dust Dyptich
2024
Gold pigment, acrylic and gesso on Italian cotton canvas
180 x 180 cm

Copper dusted miracle split (dyptich)
2025
Copper pigment, breath and acrylic on Italian cotton
180 x 180 cm

Silver spring 5 grams soul dust
2025
Silver pigment breath and acrylic on Italian cotton
126 x 180 cm