2025
Acrylic on Canvas with Gold Frame
Honouring the Vessel draws on religious iconography and the tradition of relic veneration to reframe devotion as personal, intimate, and feminine. The work acts as a contemporary altar, where hair—both material and symbol—holds reverence for a life. The use of gold, echoing the gilded altars and sacred embellishments of Catholic tradition, elevates the ordinary into the sacred, imbuing the work with a sense of holiness and ritual. Through its color, composition, and framing, the painting transforms the vessel of the human body, memory, and lived experience into an object of adoration. In this space, the simple, tangible presence of hair carries the weight of love, memory, and veneration, a personal offering made visible.
