SACRED / PROFANE / GROTESQUE

SACRED / PROFANE / GROTESQUE

When a sacred painted image is transferred into living bodies, the result may shift between reverence, failure, vulnerability, humour, humiliation, carnival, devotion and grotesque form.

The living body cannot reproduce painted perfection without transformation.

This does not automatically destroy the sacred.

It may relocate sacredness from ideal form into:

• flesh;
• effort;
• exposure;
• mortality;
• relation.

This conceptual development comes principally from Clarisse’s participant reflection.

Do not attribute it directly to Sarah.