Statement

My work begins with a simple but radical gesture: I take a single Bible—an object saturated with history, belief, authority, and memory—and transform it into a circular, meditative form. Each disk is made entirely from one complete Bible. Nothing is added or removed; the text is simply reconfigured. This act of reshaping a linear narrative into a cyclical one allows me to explore how meaning shifts when its structure changes, and how sacred material behaves when its traditional format is disrupted.

The process is repetitive and slow, more akin to ritual than to craft. I cut the pages by hand, spiral them into dense concentric layers, and secure the form until the book’s original identity dissolves into texture. This labor becomes a kind of contemplation. Through it, I engage with the Bible not as a doctrinal object but as a material body—paper, ink, weight, fragility, abundance. As the text loses readability, it gains physical presence. What was once a vessel for language becomes an object of silence, density, and quiet circular motion.

In reshaping the Bible, I am not seeking to destroy, desecrate, or elevate the text, but to invite viewers into a new mode of encounter. The pieces hold every story, every contradiction, every psalm, every lineage, yet none of it can be read. Instead, meaning is carried through form: the circle as an emblem of eternity, cycles, return; the spiral as a symbol of inwardness; the compacted paper as a record of human attempts to understand the world through narrative. My work questions whether sacredness resides in the words themselves, in the cultural authority of the object, or in the personal experience of engaging with it.

Each piece stands as a complete universe—an entire sacred text compressed into a shape that asks for contemplation rather than interpretation. By removing the possibility of literal reading, I hope to open a space where viewers can consider their own relationships to belief, tradition, and transformation. Ultimately, these works are about the tension between permanence and change, certainty and ambiguity, devotion and materiality. They offer the possibility that meaning is not fixed within language, but continually reshaped through the hands, eyes, and histories that encounter it.