Those Who Ruin Kings, 2021

Those Who Ruin Kings is centered around a spoken account of a childhood experience in which the artist inadvertently found themselves at a radical religious conversion event. 

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This told narrative is illustrated through a variety of elements including original footage depicting crude ceramic figurines of Adam and Eve and a series of microscopic ruby photography (Gemological Institute of America, 1988).

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This ‘religious iconography’ guides the viewer through the memory and confronts the Proverbs (31:10) Bible verse described in the narration: “Girls are worth more than rubies” – for this read – “Virtuous girls are worth more than rare and precious rubies; other girls are worthless”.