Forgiveness ritual

Life observation painting (blue India ink)

Memory painting (blue food dye)

Each invented ritual began by questioning the potential within the repetition of the ordinary; an exploration of intuitive actions using the foods that I continually buy as a individual. I think of these compositions as portals, my first being an improvised ritual for holiness, the second a ritual for forgiveness, and the third a ritual of protection (created on the last day I accessed my studio due to COVID-19).

Documentation after the ritual is recording my personal experience of the loss of memory for the ritual. I have the most intimate relationship with the patterns and yet I still cannot relay each element of the composition correctly to another person. After building the pattern, I photograph it, and then paint it from life. I paint using an extended paint brush (a brush attached to a 3 foot stick) and blue ink which supports the notion of distance and loss in all of my experiments. The extended arm is the first step of distancing. After two weeks I paint the ritual from memory. (2020)

These food arrangements hold my curiosity for the transiency of daily life that is tangled in the immortal aspects of ritual.

Holiness ritual

Life observation painting (blue India ink)

Memory painting (blue India ink)

Protection ritual

Life observation painting (blue food dye)

Memory painting (blue food dye)