Umbilical Cord

Built around the idea that humans are tethered in two directions at once, upward, toward the divine, and downward, into the earth. “We have both connections,” Nay says, “toward God, and toward the ground.” At the moment of taking human form, one side of that cord has to be cut, the soul dropping down toward earth. The caption she pairs with the piece insists there's a connection beyond the physical cord itself, one that survives even after the cord is severed, and that the real work of a life is finding a way to rebuild it.