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Faithbook (Prayer)

Faithbook (Prayer)
Sculpture - Incense powder & ash

A sincere prayer, which breach the realm of living and dead, the Heaven and the Earth. The placement of two hands together, forming a familiar gesture that establishes prayer. Pointing towards the sky as the incense is burnt and arisen as an invisible vessel conveying the wishes. Sculpted individually from both genders to render the duality of Ying and Yang, the compliment of the contrary forces. Prayer is a variant outlook at the semiotics of the ancient method of communicating using incense, in reference to the quote "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust” reminding us that we are temporary.
 
 
Faithbook (Prayer)
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Faithbook (Prayer)

An attempt to defamiliar the familiar. Exploring the curious relationship between the positive and negative. Establishing a variant outlook at th Read More

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