In June 2026, Fernandez undertook a week-long residency at Amici Studio with Ginugunita Kita (“I am reminiscing you”), a participatory installation created in dialogue with the local landscape and community. Across the week, local school groups, residents, artists and visitors were invited to bring stones gathered from the Hastings seafront and place them onto a continuous sheet of light-sensitive photographic paper. As daylight gradually exposed the paper, each stone held back the light beneath it, leaving behind shifting traces of absence and presence over time
The resulting work became both image and collective record — shaped through gesture, participation and shared encounter. Suspended within the gallery at the close of the residency, the photographic piece carried the imprint of everyone who contributed to it across seven days of activity and exchange.
The installation existed in dialogue with the late Filipino artist David Medalla and his seminal participatory work A Stitch in Time, embracing the artwork not as a fixed object, but as a living and evolving collaboration between artist, audience and environment. An accompanying sound installation by Tony Birch filled the space with the resonant movement of Hag Stones across weathered metal, culminating in a live improvised performance with experimental musician Ben Chernett during the residency’s final public opening.
