005. → Devotion, Divination & Discount
---- Constructing an Everyday World of Commodfied Beliefs
05/2026
Printmaking
Installation, concept book
This project examines how faith, often perceived as pure and personal, is shaped by social structures, economic exchange, and systems of commodification. It explores how contemporary devotion is mediated through consumption—offerings, rituals, and symbolic transactions—raising questions about whether sincerity can be measured or quantified. Rather than taking a moral stance, the work investigates how belief and exchange become intertwined, revealing devotion as both an internal experience and a culturally constructed practice.
Using the familiar form of a calendar, the project visualizes faith as something scheduled, performed, and embedded in everyday life. By mapping rituals, purchases, and moments of significance onto time, it exposes the overlap between spiritual practice and consumer behavior. The calendar becomes both a record and a critique, highlighting how cycles of belief and consumption reinforce each other while prompting reflection on where, if anywhere, a boundary between the two can still exist.
This is a thesis project for Communications Design, Master of Fine Art 2026 at Pratt Institute. I made the suspension calendar for thesis Opne Studio December, 2025, and a thesis book for documentation in May, 2026, exhibited in Other Island Bookfair and Pratt Show 2026.
See Devotion, Divination & Discount in books.
Finished under the instruction of Prof. Kimi Malka Hanauer.