Body as palimpsest (remapping), Dreaming of Eros, and Compression / Julia Biggs
Body as palimpsest (remapping), created using found materials and images (including a late nineteenth-century map of London), to which a double exposure technique has been applied, with the aim of generating a corporal cartography. ‘Dreaming of Eros’ layers found pieces (an anatomically labelled X-Ray image from 1920 and a picture of a Roman marble torso of Eros) to hint at hidden desires. Compression takes the index pages of a 1970s anatomy and physiology handbook, and playfully sculpts the text into a new, unsettling body within the intimate confines of a bell jar.
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Julia Biggs is a poet, writer, collage artist and freelance art historian. She lives in Cambridge, UK. Her micro-chapbook ROLES was published by Ghost City Press in 2025, and her work has appeared in Osmosis Press, Ink Sweat & Tears, Streetcake Magazine, RIC Journal and elsewhere. Find her on Twitter/X @Chiaroscuro1897, on Bluesky @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social or via her website: https://juliabiggs1.wixsite.com/juliabiggs
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