Working with ordinary objects shaped by care, task, and routine creates interest in sacramentality not as something assigned to traditionally sacred objects, but as something that emerges through repetition, having the sacred and sacramentality in an object be formed through usage.

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Objects are no longer defined by function but by metaphor. Their practical purpose dissolves as they become vessels for narrative, memory, and ambiguity. Detached from utility, the familiar becomes surreal and enters the absurd, as everyday objects carry quiet rituals within them, revealing the sacred structures embedded in ordinary life.

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Nico Kazlauskas is a Visual Art Education major at Hope College. He is the head photographer and Photography Editor at Hope College's leading student-run newspaper, The Anchor. Nico is a member of the Naperville Art League (NAL), where he has had multiple pieces displayed in the gallery and throughout the Naperville, Western, and Northern Michigan areas.