Shrines

Symbols of hope, faith, anguish, creativity. Part folk-art, part practical tool for dealing with a crisis. For remembrance of the past and protection from the future.

Street shrines voice a deeply human need for beauty, symbols and ritual in the everyday. They are examples of DIY attitude in action, built by many hands, from everyday materials, answering a creative urge.

Often the strongest feelings find shape in the most ephemeral forms - a clutch of flowers, a string of paper flags, a flickering candle flame, a rag of prayer. Commonplace items, arranged with deliberation and care, form a bridge to worlds beyond our own.

Being both communal and deeply personal creations, these Mexican street shrines are vibrant expressions of pop spirituality and folk culture.

Madre Celestial Zine

Hand-stitched zine
20.3 x 25.4 cm
48 full colour pages on 90gsm uncoated stock
Plus inserts on various papers

Published in two editions:

>> Regular Edition
33 hand-stitched copies, signed and numbered
Sugar paper cover

>> Special Edition
13 hand-stitched copies, signed and numbered
Pearl metallic paper cover
4 additional pages on gold paper
2 x images on pearl paper tipped-in
8 x 10” print on Hahnemuehle Metallic Photo Rag, signed on reverse