Inez Andrucyk

Scavenging for the sacred: A search and rescue: I collect discarded objects from bulk pickup days, garage sales, and my own personal belongings and artwork, including cultural artifacts, relevant icons, pop references, some that are unique, including geometry and elegant designs. Life piles up. Objects, images, thoughts. They stack, shift, and sometimes collapse. Scavenging for the Sacred begins in that clutter. Using found materials, paint, and layered assemblages, these works rebuild from the fragments that make up our physical and mental landscapes. Like rock cairns, the pieces serve as stabilizers and markers of awareness built from what’s at hand. They are ripe for pruning, dismantling, then rebalancing. Each piece is a space, beginning with stable geometry, where stacks of individuals find relationships, then merge into new form. This process is about seeing what’s real, sorting through the mess, and finding a moment of balance among contradictions. Through reconstruction, the work collectively invites a look at how we hold things together, both in matter and in mind.