Sacred Place, 2019

If spirituality has a perceptible form, what does it look like? Spirituality presents itself as images, and markers, that refer to the subject. Imagination, intuition, faith, and sensory experience are the pathways we have toward an understanding of a reality beyond the material if such a place exists at all. Joseph Campbell once described sacred places where “eternity shines through time.” I follow these clues to where I can discover fissures in the fabric of linear time, where the infinite permeates. Returning to the pilgrimage city of Vrndavana, India, the nexus of the Hindu sect I was raised in (but no longer a part of), I translate the literal to the metaphysical. This series is a meditation on the nature of what a sacred place is and how it can be both personal and universal. The project was originally published in Aperture and shown at Untitled, Art Basel Miami in 2021. It is currently being developed into a book.

Read Pico Iyer’s text about the project in Aperture