DAMNATIO: ROSEA DAMNATIO

"Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost." Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

ROSEA DAMNATIO - "the rose erasure."

From damnatio memoriae, the Roman sentence of oblivion: a person struck from every image and inscription, condemned to be forgotten. In this iteration the erasure arrives not in dread or grey absence but in bloom - waves of blush, rose and hot pink flooding the portrait until the face begins to dissolve into its own sweetness.