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After Alethea: Fragmentary Persistence

By Bianca Cocco 2026

After Alethea: Fragmentary Persistence is a new interdisciplinary project developed through engagement with the Garstin family archive at Kresen Kernow. The project begins with a fragment: a catalogue reference to an "unstrung pearl necklace" belonging to artist Alethea Garstin. Although the necklace survives only as a trace within the archive, it has become a starting point for exploring how meaning accumulates around incomplete evidence through interpretation, repetition and material transformation.

This project is still in development. 

Iceland Night Shot 1780913230 Bianca Cocco

Mother of Pearl:has been put to work

Pareidolia at Portmeor

Shoreditch 2006

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