Sacredness

When it comes to religious relics, a number of researchers have described the concept of "holy radiation." This is a sense of sacredness that seems to emanate from an object and that can then be soaked up by other objects. It is a force that is invisible but which matters deeply to believers. It effects the way the faithful experience religious objects, even if it cannot be seen, quantified, or recorded. It is, in essence, a subjective sense. As such, it is something that we can explore in the images we create - trying to make visual a uniquely human experience of matter.

The sacralizing power of heritage study

Heritage study often manipulates the relationship between people and objects, making them seem sacred through display, publication, and occasional academic snobbery.

The glow of "holy radiation"

Halos

Here we have DDA Simpson's "Vessel 26" and Alex Morrison's food vessel from Pun Brae, modeled to try and replicate a sense of sacredness through the application of halo-like coronas and glowing material attributes.

These images are of a single piece of heirloom costume jewelry, modelled and illustrated with halo-like coronas

Spotlights

How better to represent the sense that an object is important than to literally put it in the spotlight?