Poetry Shrines

I build shrines for poems because some words deserve more than a page. They deserve an altar.

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These works gather fragments—paint, collage, found text, vintage frames, glittering objects, mythology, anatomy, landscapes, and memory—into small devotional spaces. They honor the quiet miracles of surviving, becoming, breaking open, and continuing anyway.

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Each shrine invites the viewer to move close enough to read, to notice, and to linger. The poems unfold through images  asking us to consider what remains beautiful after transformation. The poems are fragmented and embedded throughout the work, asking the viewer to slow down, move closer, and assemble meaning for themselves. I am less interested in certainty than in reverence: for softness, for resilience, for the hidden interiors we carry.

 

They are offerings to wonder, reminders that ordinary materials—and ordinary lives—can hold extraordinary meaning.