“Where I Hoped Rock Would Be” is a series of sewn-paper collages inspired by manuscript palimpsests as models for inscription, erasure, and memory. The form is based on the ruins of a prehistoric temple site located in Malta. The collages include colored pencil, ink, graphite, silk fabric, Japanese paper, sewing notions and textual fragments taken from a fifteenth century poem by the Maltese poet Pietru Caxaro. Caxaro writes in a Semitic language that is a synthesis of late medieval Sicilian Arabic and Romance languages.