This piece emerges from a shared language of gesture, ritual, and transformation. The circular hand-spiral — forged by Tyrone Ferguson — becomes a sacred emblem, a meeting point between metal and skin, earth and spirit.
In this self-portrait, Dede Brown reaches toward that symbol as both offering and invocation. The moment holds stillness and movement at once: the body grounded, the gesture ascending. Aluminum catches light like memory — glowing softly against the yellow field — recalling the way ritual illuminates the ordinary.
Together, the two artists summon the spiral as a symbol of renewal, protection, and return. It is a conversation between hands — the blacksmith’s and the painter’s — and a testament to how creation itself can become prayer.
