Amy Bassin

Altared Truth Prayer Card
Oil markers, x-acto knife on Catholic Prayer Cards
Diptych: 3.5"x5", 2019
Altared Truths seeks to raise awareness of the widespread child abuse by the Catholic Church’s clergy. For this series, I 'alter' the front image and 'redact' the prayer on the back of Catholic Prayer Cards, ‘erasure poetry’ to express my perception of victims’ prayers and their pleas for help. These diptychs focus on the disturbing juxtaposition between the façade of purity and the abuse of innocence. By drawing, taping, and scratching on the cards with familiar everyday household materials available to children/teens/families, I alter these cards using nail polish, X-Acto knives, oil markers, medical and washi tape. 

Altared Truth Prayer Card 
Medical tape on Catholic Prayer Cards
Diptych: 3.5"x5", 2019
Altared Truths seeks to raise awareness of the widespread child abuse by the Catholic Church’s clergy. For this series, I 'alter' the front image and 'redact' the prayer on the back of Catholic Prayer Cards, ‘erasure poetry’ to express my perception of victims’ prayers and their pleas for help. These diptychs focus on the disturbing juxtaposition between the façade of purity and the abuse of innocence. By drawing, taping, and scratching on the cards with familiar everyday household materials available to children/teens/families, I alter these cards using nail polish, X-Acto knives, oil markers, medical and washi tape. 

Altared Truth Prayer Card
Oil markers, imitation silver leaf on Catholic Prayer Cards
Diptych: 3.5"x5", 2019
Altared Truths seeks to raise awareness of the widespread child abuse by the Catholic Church’s clergy. For this series, I 'alter' the front image and 'redact' the prayer on the back of Catholic Prayer Cards, ‘erasure poetry’ to express my perception of victims’ prayers and their pleas for help. These diptychs focus on the disturbing juxtaposition between the façade of purity and the abuse of innocence. By drawing, taping, and scratching on the cards with familiar everyday household materials available to children/teens/families, I alter these cards using nail polish, X-Acto knives, oil markers, medical and washi tape. 

Altared Truth Prayer Card 
Washi tape, white-out on Catholic Prayer Cards
Diptych: 3.5"x5", 2019
Altared Truths seeks to raise awareness of the widespread child abuse by the Catholic Church’s clergy. For this series, I 'alter' the front image and 'redact' the prayer on the back of Catholic Prayer Cards, ‘erasure poetry’ to express my perception of victims’ prayers and their pleas for help. These diptychs focus on the disturbing juxtaposition between the façade of purity and the abuse of innocence. By drawing, taping, and scratching on the cards with familiar everyday household materials available to children/teens/families, I alter these cards using nail polish, X-Acto knives, oil markers, medical and washi tape. 

Altared Truth Prayer Card
Washi tape, imitation gold leaf  on Catholic Prayer Cards
Diptych: 3.5"x5", 2019

Altared Truth Prayer Cards seeks to raise awareness of the widespread child abuse by the Catholic Church’s clergy that has led to billion-dollar cover-ups. For this series, I 'alter' the front image and 'redact' the prayer on the back of Catholic Prayer Cards. These diptychs focus on the disturbing juxtaposition between the façade of purity, and the abuse of innocence. By drawing, taping, and scratching on the cards with familiar everyday household materials available to children/teens/families, I alter these cards using nail polish, X-Acto knives, oil markers, medical and washi tape.  

Altared Truth Prayer Card
Medical tape, imitation gold leaf on Catholic Prayer Cards
Diptych: 3.5"x5", 2019
Altared Truths seeks to raise awareness of the widespread child abuse by the Catholic Church’s clergy. For this series, I 'alter' the front image and 'redact' the prayer on the back of Catholic Prayer Cards, ‘erasure poetry’ to express my perception of victims’ prayers and their pleas for help. These diptychs focus on the disturbing juxtaposition between the façade of purity and the abuse of innocence. By drawing, taping, and scratching on the cards with familiar everyday household materials available to children/teens/families, I alter these cards using nail polish, X-Acto knives, oil markers, medical and washi tape. 

Altared Truth Prayer Card
Oil markers on Catholic Prayer Cards
Diptych: 3.5"x5", 2019
Altared Truths seeks to raise awareness of the widespread child abuse by the Catholic Church’s clergy. For this series, I 'alter' the front image and 'redact' the prayer on the back of Catholic Prayer Cards, ‘erasure poetry’ to express my perception of victims’ prayers and their pleas for help. These diptychs focus on the disturbing juxtaposition between the façade of purity and the abuse of innocence. By drawing, taping, and scratching on the cards with familiar everyday household materials available to children/teens/families, I alter these cards using nail polish, X-Acto knives, oil markers, medical and washi tape. 

Altared Truth Prayer Card
Oil markers on Catholic Prayer Cards
Diptych: 3.5"x5", 2019

Altared Truth Prayer Card 
Nail polish on Catholic Prayer Cards
Diptych: 3.5"x5", 2019

Altared Truth Prayer Card 
Nail polish on Catholic Prayer Cards
Diptych: 3.5"x5", 2019

Altared Truth Prayer Card
Oil markers, nail polish on Catholic Prayer Cards
Diptych: 3.5"x5", 2019

Altared Truth Prayer Card 
Washi tape on Catholic Prayer Cards
Diptych: 3.5"x5", 2019

Altared Truths seeks to raise awareness of the widespread child abuse by the Catholic Church’s clergy. For this series, I 'alter' the front image and 'redact' the prayer on the back of Catholic Prayer Cards, ‘erasure poetry’ to express my perception of victims’ prayers and their pleas for help. These diptychs focus on the disturbing juxtaposition between the façade of purity and the abuse of innocence. By drawing, taping, and scratching on the cards with familiar everyday household materials available to children/teens/families, I alter these cards using nail polish, X-Acto knives, oil markers, medical and washi tape.