Tracing What Remains explores the layered cultural and ecological memory of Ghayathi. Handmade from locally sourced alfalfa and pond fibers, the paper functions as both material and method, becoming an archive of a landscape once shaped by water systems. The fibers retain traces of a city that has largely remained undocumented, carrying within them histories embedded in the land itself.

Through a process of mark-making, the work engages with memory, materiality, and the persistence of what resists preservation. The fibers are not passive surfaces; rather, they actively inform the rhythm, texture, and structure of each composition. Layer by layer, marks are constructed and reconstructed in response to the material, creating a dialogue between surface and gesture.

The abstraction of the city emerges through this exchange. Rather than presenting a literal depiction, the work offers a sensory and material translation of place, where histories of survival, transformation, and ecological presence become embedded within the paper itself. Each sheet functions as a living document, rooted in tradition, shaped by modernity, and resisting cultural erasure through the act of making.