Strata approaches Egypt from two directions simultaneously.

From above: the Nile as a topographic body — an aerial view of a river that is also a civilisation's spine, a living map of everything that grew alongside it. The land seen from a distance that makes its deep structure visible.

From below: the ground as archive. Texture, built up in layers on the canvas surface, stands for the buried cities and layered histories still beneath the sand. Saqqara continues to yield new tombs. The excavations are not finished. The ground is still full.

Onto this ground, scenes drawn from the walls of tombs and temples: birds, fish, animals, hunters, moments of daily life preserved in paint for thousands of years — and, in this series, still in circulation.