EGG crack

SACRED TABOO DESTRUCTION RITUAL, 2021

ROLE: ARTIST

EGG CRACK IS THE FIRST IN THE DESTRUCTION RITUAL SERIES. THE RITUAL EVOLVED FROM A FASCINATION WITH THE SYMBOLIC ENERGIES OF THE OVUM IN ESOTERIC OCCULT PRACTICES, GUSTAV METZGER’S AUTO-DESTRUCTIVE ART AND THE EROTICIZATION OF THE EGG IN GEORGE BATAILLE’S the STORY OF THE EYE. THE AMALGAMATION OF WHICH WOULD EVENTUALLY PRODUCE A RITUAL WHERE TRANSGRESSION BECOMES TRANSCENDENCE AND DESTRUCTION BECOMES CREATION. THE EGG IS UTILIZED AS A SACRED FORM, A SYMBOL OF ORIGIN, BOTH A LITERAL AND METAPHORIC VESSEL, EMBODYING THE BALANCE BETWEEN BIRTH AND DEATH…A TEMPORAL SPACE BETWEEN WORLDS. TAKING THIS HOLY OBJECT TO THE REALM OF OBSCENITY AND ABSURDITY, MOVES AWAY FROM THE LOGICAL AND ENTERS THE SURREAL. IT BECOMES AN ACT OF DEFIANCE AND CHALLENGE TO THE PACIFICATION AND STERILIZATION OF THE MODERN HUMAN EXPERIENCE; A NEAR COMPLETE DISCONNECT FROM THE NATURAL WORLD and our subconscious. IT REMINDS US in order to unite THE MULTITUDES OF OUR existence we must step outside of the sterile and puritanitcal to truly EMBRACE THE CHAOTIC PARADOX OF OUR humanness.

EGG CRACK IS PART OF THE DESTRUCTION RITUAL SERIES. THE DRS IS AN ONGOING EXPLORATION OF THE BODY AS SACRED WEAPON, A PRACTICE WHERE SISYPHEAN REPETITION TRANSFORMS DESTRUCTION INTO RITUAL. OFTEN USING SACRED OR FETISHIZED OBJECTS AND MATERIALS, THESE RITUALS ARE THE PHYSICAL CATALYST OF TRANSMUTATION SPELLS…INTENTIONAL DESTRUCTION AS RE-BIRTH THROUGH CREATION AND RELEASE. THE SERIES SPEAKS TO PHYSICAL AGENCY, BODILY AUTONOMY AND FREE WILL AGAINST CENSORSHIP THROUGH PRACTICING ACTS OF TABOO EROTICISM. THESE ACTS EXIST IN PARADOX, BLURRING THE LINES BETWEEN WHAT IS SACRED OR PROFANE. LIKE THE MYSTICAL OR JUNGIAN ARCHETYPE OF THE TRICKSTER, THE DRS POINTS TO THE DISMANTLING AND CLEARING OF LARGER LESS TANGIBLE STRUCTURES OUTSIDE OF THE PHYSICAL THROUGH ACTS OF PSYCHO-MAGICAL DESTRUCTION.