I offered this project from three perspectives; as a poet who viewed poems as living symbols; as a student of anthropology, who saw language as the original human technology arising from the instinct to make marks; and as a Jungian, who experienced Psyche as the underlying force catalyzing human creativity.

For this project I printed every word I had written over the course of two years while completing an MA in Depth Psychology with an Emphasis in Humanities and wove these into a sculpture. It became a black and white temple, a linguistic prayer scroll that paid homage to the hours of inquiry, research, and reflection necessary to make art from a depth psychological perspective. This project described a multiplicity of things in a particular way. It was a retrospective, a collection of poems, and a ceremony enacted in honor of crossing the threshold of graduation. I created this portfolio with the intention of traversing the boundaries between written genres and visual art. It was a gesture to reconstruct alphabets as the sacred tools they once were within many Tales of Origin, in which humans were said to have adopted them from the Gods.