Empty Offerings
(119 unique ceramic pieces)
Hugo Burge Foundation Residency, Scotland, April 2025
The ephemeral form of a disposable blister pack is imbued with the value of permanence. Each piece emulate sanctuary votive deposits and transform the physical emptiness of the used packs into a votive value.
This transformation brings together contemporary material culture and ancient symbolic practice in a meaningful way. These votives are not sacred in the traditional sense, but they make space for reverence—for the quiet dignity of survival, for the unseen rituals of recovery, and for the fragility of the body in a world of scientific systems and social structures.
This time I have picked up CLAY.
The works done during my residency responds to my ongoing research at Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and re-imagine the discarded form of empty blister packets as contemporary votive offerings - tokens of lived experience. An empty pack, usually unnoticed, now becomes a trace of a personal narrative—where each empty void points not to absence, but to action: the routines of healing, hope and belief. I imbue the ephemeral form of a disposable pack with the value of permanence.
