Altar Within
Welcome,
I’m honored to introduce Altar—a creation many years in the making, now ready to be birthed into the world.
Altars are sacred spaces, woven into human history across cultures for thousands of years.
Long ago, they appeared in caves and wild places, where artifacts like bones, shells, feathers, flowers, and pigments were placed with intention - offerings to ancestors, the departed, the elements, animals, and the unseen.
Before organized religion took shape, humans built altars as portals of connection between the visible and invisible realms, ancient expressions of our instinct to commune with forces greater than ourselves.
When states and organized religions took shape, altars were formalized. They became central in temples, churches, and ritual complexes. Today, altars remain everywhere, both religious and non-religious, as a way to continue the ancient human instinct to mark a place for the sacred…