Instruments of Redemption

Oil on wood, 12 × 12 in, 2025

This painting depicts the Catholic practice of venerating the cross, where parishioners kneel to kiss the wounded feet of Christ. Here, the act becomes uncanny and disembodied as female limbs enact the gesture upon one another, transforming veneration into a performance of anxious desperation. Their tattoos reference a poem from David Lynch’s 1992 film, Fire Walk With Me, where fire symbolizes both purification and the struggle against encroaching darkness.