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 Firelight and Shadow: 

A Reliquary for Unquiet Things

Altered Book, ink, resin, oil paint, acrylic paint, plastic flies, crow feather, wood

21.59 x 15.24cm (8.5 x 6 in)

“Beneath the bone, a name unspoken. Beneath the name, a spell not yet broken.”

The sightless witness is sealed within a reliquary, locked in refusal at the hollowed core of a book. Cast in resin, the crow skull is surrounded by scattered remnants, ash from the removed pages, their words forever silenced. Beneath the skull is embedded a text drawn from imagined scripture and scorched myth, speaking to what burns inward: rage, memory, refusal.

The skull does not scream, but watches. The pages do not speak, but hold. What could not rest, could not yield, remains.

A monument to the fire that endures beneath stillness, preserving what the world tries to bury: grief, fury, and the fragile trace of flight.

A crow skull is sealed within the hollowed body of a book. Pages have been removed, burned, and compressed into residue.

The remaining text is fragmented and illegible, embedded rather than read. The skull does not perform as a symbol or a warning. It occupies a position of continued presence.

The object holds what could not be discarded. Refusal persists without declaration.

What remains is not speech, but containment.