The Descent
23.5” x 18.75” x 3.5”
The Descent weaves memory and loss through a fall of sealed messages and obscured figures. Each vial holds a whisper of something once spoken, now drifting past recognition. The piece is a meditation on censorship, cultural erasure, and the slow, silent descent of collective truth.
23.5” x 18.75” x 3.5”
The Descent weaves memory and loss through a fall of sealed messages and obscured figures. Each vial holds a whisper of something once spoken, now drifting past recognition. The piece is a meditation on censorship, cultural erasure, and the slow, silent descent of collective truth.
23.5” x 18.75” x 3.5”
The Descent weaves memory and loss through a fall of sealed messages and obscured figures. Each vial holds a whisper of something once spoken, now drifting past recognition. The piece is a meditation on censorship, cultural erasure, and the slow, silent descent of collective truth.
Materials List:
Antique gold picture frame
Aged paper ephemera and newspaper fragments
Photographic image transfer on wood
Dozens of small glass vials with corks
Twine / cord
Text snippets (inside vials)
Wire mesh / netting
Paint splatters and pigment wash
Rusted metal scraps
The Descent is a sobering reflection on vanishing truth, memory, and agency. A series of glass vials tumble downward across a faded ledger background—each containing a printed message, redacted or fragmented, evoking silenced voices or erased narratives. A central photographic image, scratched and veiled behind dark netting, depicts distant figures on the brink of obscurity—perhaps retreating, perhaps rising. The descent is not just physical, but symbolic: of suppression, of forgetting, of fading light.