This piece is deeply inspired by Go Home. St. Shoogy's Shrine focuses in on a room within the Go Home project called Bettie. Bettie became a memorial for all the dogs I've loved that I've lost. So when Sugar, a dog I loved very much, died at the end of 2015 I took the concept of the Bettie room and began creating St. Shoogy's Shrine. This piece allowed me to focus on a smaller shrine and use the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual pain to build. 

Death is such a magical, mystical thing that I can't understand. This shrine references the difficulties of dealing with death, and the possible mental illness that can be triggered by it.

Using collected materials from Sugar's life and my own, this piece is a totem for loss and the hope of somehow connecting with the lost one again. It's a campy shrine that boarders on the absurd and the beautiful. It's a celebration of life.