reliquary 001... 2025

Laser-etched acrylic, modular steel table.

Box: 250 x 300 x 200 mm 

Table: 500 x 700 x 900 mm 

In this work I adapt and manipulate a photo digitally to become unintelligible. I print five different iterations of the photo with increasing degrees of abstraction on acrylic "folders"--shallow boxes with tabs protruding from the top of the file box--which I then plate with gold leaf in commensurately increasing degrees to obscure the etching underneath. 

This work is fundamentally interactive, asking the viewer to act as the archivist. There is a hierarchical order in the set which the viewer is invited to abide by or to ignore -- either intentionally or not.