This piece began with beeswax — a material as ancient and natural as the traditions. Warm, fragile, sacred. H@LY was born from something unexpected: pressing circuit boards into the wax. Keyboards, old devices — relics of a new kind of worship. These imprints formed the “shroud” of the figure, replacing fabric with the language of machines.

The figure — a veiled woman — draws from the iconography of religious art. A silhouette I saw often as a child. A silhouette still alive in Saudi Arabia, where I traveled in 2023. But here, the veil is not a symbol of faith — it’s a technological skin. Cold. Structured. Embedded with code.

And this is where the question begins:

Can technology become our new spirituality? When we search for meaning — do we still look up… or just log in? Are we replacing mystery with data?

This sculpture reflects a quiet tension I live with daily — as an artist, a mother, a witness to how fast the world is changing. My children ask AI what I once asked the stars. I see ancient wisdom replaced by optimized search results.