But the life cycle of a garment is not meaningless. It is, rather, a site

where meanings—which tailor our spiritual lives—are produced. The era in which we simply fabricated spirituality is,

I think, over. We look now, in moments of contemplation, into the folds of the fabric that hides us.    -- Beatrice Marovich

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          These four works were constructed by folding sheets of paper to approximate the folds of a cloth shawl or veil as it might drape over and around a person's head, shoulders, and torso. Each one includes a passage from the writing of a devout woman from history— one who often wrote of her abiding determination for divine union. These reflections were handwritten in reverse script onto the papers before folding, obscuring their content within the folds.

​          In keeping with the analogy of the dissolution of self in relationship represented by the silk shawl’s disintegrated stitching, the obscured text of each folded work restricts our access to and therefore our identification with the intimate rumination of each writer.