I wanted the violence of being made into someone's answer without consent. The Yukaghir tradition of spirit petition meets Friulan ecclesiastical weight — two cultures that understood the burden of intercession. She's literally wading through what people demanded of her, and the organza makes those demands visible, makes her body the archive of other people's desperation. The flooded chapel says the institution that was supposed to process these pleas has failed, and now she's alone with them. — Volt