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Vintage papers, paint, gold leafing, and thin washes of glaze built up in deep layers sometimes cut into tiles and reassembled as a mosaic. Images and ghosts of images drawn in ink with a calligraphic pen or a feather.

Combination of invented and antiquated process reminiscent of palimpsest (from the Greek palimpsestos ('scraped again') often seen in illuminated manuscripts. A palimpsest is reused writing support material from which the underlying text has been erased (by washing in the case of papyrus and by using pumice or other scraping devices in the case of parchment). Erasure was not always complete and an underlying text would often bleed through.

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