Berlin, Germany, 2019.
SACRED PROFANE
A visual study of symbols and rituals expressing creed and conviction.
Sacred can only be pursued through profane. A ritual marks the crossing of the boundary, a movement from the profane to the sacred. The ritual allows the sanctification of the mundane. The ritual clears the mundane from its material connotations, elevates it into the realm of the sacred. Bread and wine is transformed into the flesh and blood of the sacrificed, and thus sanctified.
However, in the world of profane, bread stays bread. Enchantment fades. The thin line that separates the sacred from the mundane shifts.
Hands are on the realm of profane. Hands till, toil, reap and clear. They cook and paint, type, and nurse, gratify, cleanse, kill and maim. But hands also baptise, bless, confer and spell. Like icons, rosaries and and other religious artefacts, hands convey emotions, gestures, convictions and creeds. Sacred Profane.
Berlin, Germany, 2018.
"The name of philosopher is not to be given to him who has indeed open eyes for the things of the world, a clear and undazzled gaze, a correct judgment about the world, but who sees in the world just the world, in objects only objects, and, in short, everything prosaically as it is; but he alone is a philosopher who sees, and points out or demonstrates, heaven in the world, the supernal in the earthly, the - divine in the mundane."
- Max Stirner
Berlin, Germany, 2019.
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Berlin, Germany, 2019.
Berlin, Germany. 2019.
Helsinki, Finland, 2019.
County Clare, Ireland, 2024.
Berlin, Germany. 2019.
Berlin, Germany. 2019.
"However human this sacred thing may look, though it be the Human itself, that does not take away its sacredness, but at most changes it from an unearthly to an earthly sacred thing, from a divine one to a human."
- Max Stirner
