Is the image that recreates the text or is the text that redefines the image? by Tom Lisboa

The word Palimpsest derives from pálin (again) and psests (to rub off) and refers to a manuscript page or book whose content was erased and rewritten. It is from this concept of agglomeration and suppression that the Palimpsests series brings up a relationship as conflict as inevitable in photojournalism: is the image that recreates the text or is the text that redefines the image?

Each work of Palimpsests consists of an overlaying of verbal and non-verbal texts: the video , the photography on the background, the written text,  the brush action (which may refer to the painting or the watercolor).

In these videos, a particular event has a published picture and text overlaid. This is the beginning of a process where we observe someone that, with brush and water, surrenders to a useless work: trying to erase the text that appears in front of the image.
Each time the goal is achieved, like Sisyphus, we are taken to the starting point again.