'108'
The work derived inspiration from the ritualistic practice used within various religions such as catholicism and paganism (as well as others) in which portable altars would be assembled for use in personal, easily transportable or smaller places of worship. The parcels would usually consist of either sections of a saints clothing or religious paraphernalia in catholicism or within paganism; items that hold particular spiritual significance would be collected from nature representing the elements such as stones, feathers or sticks.
This type of practice was adopted in the assembling of '108' (a very symbolic number). 108 stones were collected whilst upon a meditative pilgrimage and each stone was then individually bound and wrapped with varying scraps of printed material and attached was a repressed or negative emotion, thought or memory that arouse and was then recorded over the duration of the project.
These altar stones and the accompanying note were then assembled in a symbolic fashion and sacrificed to the altar, signifying the acknowledgment and removal of these negative and restricting aspects of my psyche.