Kept is an ongoing work preserving handwritten prayers at monumental scale.
I preserve handwritten prayers from public spaces — places where people write knowing their words may be seen. With explicit consent, every opted-in prayer is kept and preserved as an archive, presented as part of the KEPT installation.
From this growing archive, I select a curated set of prayers to translate into paintings — chosen for resonance, universality, and the visual character of the handwriting itself. Each selected prayer is enlarged faithfully onto raw linen at monumental scale. Misspellings stay. Awkward spacing stays. Nothing is edited. The work functions as reliquary, record, and assignment.
Work from this series is currently in development and has not yet been publicly exhibited. Documentation and studio visits are available to galleries, curators, and collectors by request.