Photograms of books have the wonderful quality of layering and inversion that brings to mind the palimpsest, the medieval overwritten psalter, with its promise of other hidden writings and preserved lost knowledge. They provide a parallel to the workings of the mind and the unconscious in the way that they contain, yet at the same time hide information.

These images are produced by laying pages from books that I owned as a child. The image produced resembles the original page but is masked by the trace of printing on the other side showing through. The words can only be read in places, some are obscured and half are inverted. The text provides disjointed messages that must be decoded.