A gate // A veil // A vessel is an installation at Field Projects NYC 2021

Naming is a process of creation, bestowing life or soul upon in a human, object or idea. A name gives purpose as well as calls claim to a lineage or possession. On the other hand, a name that was meant to be a secret, if spoken aloud or in the wrong context, a name spoken in uncertainty or with doubtfulness in it's truth, a rumor, and can be dangerous to the speaker, the one named, or both. Each carpet beater is a sigil of a demon who will not be named albeit the name is in plain sight. The name–whether it be the secret, the truth, the rumor, the demon–is activated by the slaps of the beater onto the casting rug and the calling of its name and purpose.

Summoning M/other
Yarn, cow leather, local, bovine teeths, hematite, red ochre, red brick powder made from a Drury Brick Co, a Vermont brick company in acrylic matte medium, waxed thread, vinyl
66 x 66 x 8 in.
2021

(left)

APOLIN // notum est
Steel, goat's horn, lady fern, burdock, patchouli root, cotton, wax
13 x 38 x 3 in.
202

(right)

NIAGUTLY // in salutem
Steel, goat horn, kyanite, amethyst, cotton
13 x 38 x 3 in.
2020

Underneath the rug: red brick powder made from a Drury Brick Co, a brick manufacture in Vermont. Brick powder protective barrier between the caller and the called placed at gateways, doors, window and portals.

The alter: bees wax candles, silver bells, a vial of staghorn sumac vinegar and staghorn sumac tincture, bovine molars.

Detail with ochre stained bovine teeth, hematite stone and cow leather

Detail with hematite stone and dyed cow leather

Detail with ochre stained bovine teeth

Detail of dyed cow leather with hide