Artist Laurie Beth Zuckerman creates altar installations and memory jugs using an eclectic blend of Catholic, Hispanic, African, and Haitian religious sensibilities. Laurie collects antique religious art and found-objects to construct her memorials, honoring the lives of her Russian-Jewish ancestors. Her enigmatic memory vessels are small-scale assemblages of natural materials and vintage memorabilia.
‘My found-object assemblage altars and memory vessels are the ideal format for my approach to visual excess, with synchronicity guiding my visual directions. The gestalt of each altar amounts to more than the sum of its myriad parts—transcending the material world to reveal mysteries from the spiritual realm.’
I enjoy her work because of the diversity in objects she collects and her placement of them. She uses symmetry a lot which I think is a common theme in shrines I have looked at. Symmetry gives a structured, calming effect which is important as without this the displays might look disorganised.
Her use of colour scheme is also striking – she keeps a fairly strict scheme which also keeps her displays cohesive.
The Shrine Project 