Shrine to Fleeting Fixity, 2018
Handmade kozo paper and brick installation.
Shrine of Fleeting Fixity is an installation crafted through meditations on accepting impermanence and transient vulnerability.
The shrine represents the necessity and sanctity of accepting and honoring the fact that impermanence is a part of life. The process of making this piece reinforced this concept in the destruction of the roses. I spent days making all of them just to then sit in the dirt, bury them, let snow fall, and finally dig them up again after the snow had melted– surrendering myself to the world’s unpredictability and accept that the results of all my hours of work were going to be destroyed somehow. I also burned many of them as an intentional method of decay to be a metaphor for accepting the moments when we sometimes must actively change something about our lives, even if it hurts, in order to let go of attachment. I casted my hands and placed them crossed over each other to symbolize that sense of surrendering vulnerability, and connect to the idea that not only will things naturally be created and destroyed, but our hands can, and will, also do the same.