shrine to a Grocery Store Fish
Wood, saintly remains
2025
26 in x 11 in x 16 in

shrine to a Grocery Store Fish is made with laminated wood, cut to create multiple pockets along the interior to hold the relics of a saint. The opening in the front can house two cupped human hands when the body is sitting or kneeling. The architecture projects human reliquary traditions onto a nonhuman subject.

Belief is what makes a deceased organism a metaphysical power and takes no declared form.

Belief is what makes a deceased organism a metaphysical power and takes no declared form.

ARATÍN