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.