Oh Blessed Night

Jayne McSwiney
Oh Blessed Night,
Hooned-out rubber tyre, gold leaf, burnt rubber, frankincense, and myrrh, 64cm x 54cm x 20cm, 2024.

Oh Blessed Night transforms a badly blown-out tyre, carefully gilded in gold leaf, into an incense burner. As it releases the mingled scents of burnt rubber, frankincense, and myrrh, the piece attempts to reconcile the tension between confusion and revelation, between destruction and the journey to the sacred.