Dana Ellyn
Ritual
Two women in period dress kneel beneath red drapery, one holding a candle as both focus on a glowing smartphone placed on the floor
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Ritual

16" × 20"
oil on canvas

$400


What remains is not belief, but the performance of belief.

One woman is introspective as she warmly illuminates the scene with a candle. The other gestures to a phone on the ground which emits a cold, constant glow.

Both figures are looking at an object that promises meaning without delivering it.

An absurdist meditation on conviction outliving its cause.


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