A WALK THROUGH BELIEFS

Can we reimagine pharmaceutical waste as a living ritual?

A Walk Through Beliefs transforms one of the most overlooked materials of contemporary
life—discarded pharmaceutical blister packs—into a passageway that reflects on healing,
devotion, and collective memory. Collected over several years, each emptied blister carries
the trace of a deeply personal act: the taking of medicine in the hope of relief. The work sits
at the social intersection of medical science, health consumerism and environmentalism.

The installation is composed of approximately 105,000 empty blister pockets meticulously
joined together by hand. This repetitive act of joining together recalls devotional practices in
which threads, cloth, or other offerings are attached to temples, shrines, sacred trees, and
places of pilgrimage as material expressions of wishes, prayers, and gratitude. Here, the
blister packs become contemporary votive offerings. Each punctured cavity is understood
not simply as an absence left by a consumed medicine, but as a quiet record of hope—a
wish entrusted to the possibility of healing.

Drawing inspiration from the architectural layout of Hindu temples, where courtyards and
corridors guide the devotee from the outer world toward inner truth, the work invites viewers
to walk through this transitional passageway. On closer inspection, however, its surface
reveals thousands of individual blisters, each bearing the imprint of an unseen life,
proposing that materials associated with illness and waste can be transformed into a place
of contemplation. In doing so, A Walk through Beliefs is not simply a meditative encounter,
it is also a provocation: a reminder that the sacred and the everyday coexist, and that even
discarded waste has stories to tell about the relationship between our bodies and our world.