Birthing A Creation:

Reimagining the Altar

On Conceiving the Alchemy of Metals Altar

Vestali, in partnership with Fairfax Dorn Projects

There is a particular kind of birth that happens nowhere near hospitals, and nowhere near poetry either, though it borrows from both. It begins as pressure: an image or feeling that won’t release its grip, not an idea in the casual sense but a mandate. Before an object materializes, it already exists: in the mind, yes, but also in the body—like a sentence you can feel forming before you know what it will say.