There is power in ritual. This is highly important in the Mormon religion, as well as in the nighttime soap dramas on television. Every week the Sacrament is served, and sins can be washed away. Every week, Criminal Minds is able to locate a serial killer or arsonist through some minute detail, and the world is better until the next episode. I see a systematized obsession starting to take place in my practice embodied in the ritual of making. I make these objects in order to reflect the objects I have seen the Society use. But, my resources are limited and I can’t remake them perfectly accurate. Through ritual, these obviously hand-made objects become accurate stand-ins for what I have seen. Common craft store materials are invested with magic to become “art”. A fetish is an object regarded with awe as being the embodiment or habitation of a potent spirit or as having magical potency.[1] My work is my fetish.
[1] fetish. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged. Random House, Inc. http://dictionary.reference.
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