OBJECTS OF DEVOTION:
THE KEEPER OF FRAGMENTS
This Keeper of Fragments is created from the pieces we carry—papers saved, images remembered, and materials that hold meaning. These are the things that stay with us, often quietly, asking to be gathered rather than discarded. In this process, we begin by honoring those fragments as part of our creative history.
Through simple layering, wrapping, and assembling, these elements come together into a quiet, powerful presence—part figure, part reliquery, part story. What emerges is not just an object, but a reflection of where you’ve been and what you’ve held onto—a personal form that gives shape to memory, intuition, and the traces of your creative life.
Keeper of Fragments is the first workshop in a new series I’m calling Objects of Devotion. It grew out of a realization that surprised me—that much of what I’ve created over the years, in collage, encaustic, and assemblage, has been a form of devotion.
Not in a strictly religious sense, but in a deeply human one—a devotion to memory, to meaning, and to the quiet relationship between the artist and the work.
Over time, I began to see that the materials I return to again and again—papers, images, fragments, remnants—are not incidental. They are carriers of experience. They hold traces of where I’ve been, what I’ve noticed, and what I’ve chosen to keep.
This series is a way of honoring that impulse. Each workshop will explore a different kind of object—something made by hand, shaped with intention, and rooted in personal meaning. Keeper of Fragments is the beginning—a place to gather what has stayed with you and give it form.
