Objects of Devotion
In Mexican devotional culture, faith is rarely abstract—it is a negotiation: I offer this if you grant that. I carry this because something was promised. I keep this because something remains unresolved.Objects of Devotion begins within that logic. Drawing from the visual language of Mexican ex-votos, milagritos and colonial devotional objects, the series reimagines them as contemporary objects of devotion, reducing them to their essential forms while preserving their symbolic weight. Central to the series is a Christ inspired by the figure bent during the 1921 bombing of the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City—not restored, but preserved as testimony that faith can survive fracture. This is not jewelry about religion. It is jewelry about what happens when a person has nothing left to control and still reaches for something.
This collection is currently in development. The images presented here are concept visualizations of works in progress.