Hunch – Premonition is a visual essay that explores the intricate process of memory. Enclosed in a translucent parchment pouch and covered in Fedrigoni Pergamena paper with shiny gold foil on the front, the artist’s book introduces a series of Ultrachrome prints on 220g Hahnemühle PhotoRag Book & Album paper (100% cotton). Scored, folded, and stitched with crepeline fiber—artisanally dyed with cochineal and beetroot and hand-waxed—the publication includes a jewel cast in brass: a symbolic anchor that highlights the tension between the enduring and the ephemeral.

Created for the solo exhibition ‘en la noche prevalece un corazón lleno’ at the Crisp-Ellert Art Museum in St. Augustine, Florida, Hunch–Premonition interlaces childhood motifs, personal rituals, and reoccurring gestures with silk thread, flattened golden thorns, and a rose stem. Each element evokes both the proximity to and distance from familial memory.

The haptic, almost sensuous experience of turning the pages, combined with the weight of the brass jewel, transforms the act of engagement into a ritual—a sacred space for contemplation that extends beyond the book’s form. The rose stem acts as both relic and symbol, a poignant marker of permanence within a work that—like a palpitation—reconfigures itself with each reading.

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