Every painting starts somewhere quiet. A memory, a feeling I can’t quite name yet, or a shape that keeps showing up until I begin to understand why. Faces, Vessel and Thread began that way.

This piece is about memory and ancestry, and the idea that identity isn’t really one face, but many, layered across generations. I built the composition around overlapping faces and vessel forms, allowing them to blend into and interrupt one another. I wanted it to feel a little like memory itself. Fragmented, layered, with something always underneath.

The thread became the element that connected everything. It moves through the faces, vessels and architectural forms as a continuous line, connecting one figure to another and the past to the present.

I built the painting slowly in layers, allowing certain faces and forms to emerge while others became partially obscured. I didn’t want every element to reveal itself immediately. Some parts are meant to be discovered over time.

Faces, Vessel and Thread is an original work by Gina Palmerin.

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