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Altared Truth Prayer Card
Oil markers on Catholic Prayer Cards
Diptych: 3.5"x5", 2019Altared 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. The Church hierarchy of bishops and priests breached their vows to their God. They breached their role as pastors to their congregations by too often turning them into victims of unspeakable physical and emotional violence. For this series, I 'redact' both the front and back of Catholic Prayer Cards and pair them as a diptych to expose 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. I see this project as an activist declaration of exposing criminal and moral injustices.
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Altared Truth Prayer Card
Oil markers, X-acto knife on Catholic Prayer Cards
Diptych: 3.5"x5", 2019 -
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Altared Truth Prayer Card
Oil markers on Catholic Prayer Cards
Diptych: 3.5"x5", 2019 -
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Altared Truth Prayer Card
Oil markers, X-acto knife on Catholic Prayer Cards
Diptych: 3.5"x5", 2019 -
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Altared Truth Prayer Card
Oil markers, X-acto knife on Catholic Prayer Cards
Diptych: 3.5"x5", 2019 -
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Altared Truth Prayer Card
Nail polish, X-acto knife on Catholic Prayer Cards
Diptych: 3.5"x5", 2019 -
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Altared Truth Prayer Card
Washi tape, white-out on Catholic Prayer Cards
Diptych: 3.5"x5", 2019 -
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Altared Truth Prayer Card
Medical tape on Catholic Prayer Cards
Diptych: 3.5"x5", 2019 -
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Altared Truth Prayer Card
Washi tape on Catholic Prayer CardsDiptych: 3.5"x5", 2019
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Altared Truth Prayer Card
Imitation gold leaf, washi tape on Catholic Prayer Cards
Diptych: 3.5"x5", 2019 -
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Altared Truth Prayer Card
Imitation gold leaf, washi tape on Catholic Prayer Cards
Diptych: 3.5"x5", 2019 -
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Altared Truth Prayer Card
Washi tape on Catholic Prayer CardsDiptych: 3.5"x5", 2019
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“Altared Truth”
Hand-made artist bookChipboard, clergy fabric, archival inkjet prints, imitation gold leaf, 12"x9, 2018
“Altared Truth,” a hand-made artist book seeks to raise awareness of the widespread child abuse by the Catholic Church’s clergy that has led to a billion-dollar cover-up. It attempts to expose the disturbing juxtaposition between the façade of purity and the abuse of innocence.
It can lay flat and opened like a book or can be displayed as a freestanding sculptural object. The shape of a bishop’s hat represents the façade of holiness that opens up to an altarpiece of evil where altar boys kneel in submissive compliance to their tormentors. The distressed cross painted in the dirt on the book’s back cover represents the victim’s burial of hope, faith, and trust.
As an experimental book structure, the project also attempts to push the boundaries of artist books.
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