KEPT is a series of paintings made from handwritten prayers.

Handwritten prayers are gathered through cross installations placed in public, private, and institutional settings. Each is written anonymously and kept with the writer's consent. A single prayer is translated onto raw linen at architectural scale and reproduced exactly as written. Spelling, pressure, hesitation, ink color, and every irregularity are kept. Nothing is corrected. The handwriting is not a source to be interpreted. It is the surface of the work.

The original tag is preserved with each painting.

At scale, a private appeal becomes impossible to ignore. Words meant for an unseen recipient are made to last and held in public view. A culture protects the things its hands make and lets the prayers it offers disappear. KEPT places the prayer inside the same conditions it reserves for art.

The work does not answer the prayer or try to rescue it. It begins from the premise that the prayer was already received in the moment it was made.