ALTAR OF SORROW gazes into the bleakest depths of the void. The nothing that we hide from, that we deeply fear, and that we refuse to see. With intricate stippling and stark black and white contrast, Altar of Sorrow asks us to resign ourselves to a lonely journey and a lonely death, and I feel like these works speak to the idea that no matter who surrounds us as we die, death itself is a solo journey. And the living will never know where our energy goes. Does it dissipate into the earth’s electromagnetic heartbeat, does it return to some blissful painless realm, or is it just extinguished? Altar of Sorrow brings the desolation and despair of the living to life on the page. There’s something deeply beautiful about the crushing darkness in this artwork.
