The Descent

$750.00

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.