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Built through layers of collage, distressed markings, faded typography, silkscreen remnants, texture medium, and hand-worked surface treatments, this mixed-media painting unfolds like an archaeological wall. Working within the language of palimpsest painting and symbolic assemblage, the piece explores the tension between concealment and revelation: old stories obscured beneath newer ones, identities partially erased yet still visible beneath the surface. A solitary blackbird appears within the layered field, less a central subject than a quiet keeper of passage, memory, and return. Balancing intuitive abstraction with eco-mystic collage aesthetics, the work exists between dreamscape, relic, and emotional architecture. Erin Lofton built the painting in layers and then selected a vintage blackbird from an archive of fellow artist, Peter Mars, to silkscreen in the top left using bone black polymer.

48 × 60 inches

acrylic, collage, texture mediums, and ink on gallery-profile canvas

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