these two images are part of an ongoing series i call ‘Horror Vacui’.

Literally horror vacui means fear of the emptiness. artists try to control this fear by filling the entire surface of an artwork with ornamental details, figures, shapes, lines. think baroque and rococo. obviously, this was all way before Mies van der Rohe came along with his “less-is-more” adage (although there are a number of contemporary artists still contemplating the issue).

anyhoo, i put roman catholic artifacts in places where they don’t belong, like here, in the big anonymous concrete emptiness of a car park.