While visiting family in Brazil, I came across a church in Ouro Preto whose small backroom was filled with votive offerings. This ever expanding collection of objects depicts disembodied and ailing body parts, tells stories of personal injury, and bears witness to miraculous recovery. I bring images and materials together in a similar way in my practice, prioritizing process over resolution, movement over static form. Votives are traditionally small objects made out of wood, metal, wax or small paintings on canvas. In my work I reuse, crop, and erase personal and found images, extracting them from their original context to create layered compositions. My work engages with histories of religious imagery, visibility, and the vulnerability of the body. Through processes of re-contextualization, images become unstable, shifting from documentation to devotional, from spectacle to relic. I work with paint, wood, wax, latex, and photo transfer in order to explore bodily forms that simultaneously communicate strength and fragility. My practice expands into the third dimension through the use of found, overexposed, and damaged materials which carry a sense of time and its transmission.