Becoming Ritual
The works in Becoming Ritual (2012-13) incorporate painting, printmaking, and found materials into sculptural collages that focus on physical and spiritual cycles of growth, deterioration, and decay, and celebration related to life’s passages. These works are formed through a combination of additive processes—arranging, attaching, connecting, and layering—that reflect growth, and subtractive or regressive actions—cutting, removing, extracting—that embody destruction. Together, these gestures create a metaphorical language of transformation.