ASCENSION examines my experience growing up as a female member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and how the Church’s visual culture influenced my perception of reality and the ineffable. These paintings and drawings explore the process of deprogramming my visuality. I appropriate sanctioned Mormon imagery and rearrange its narrative by remixing it with images lifted from the mainstream culture I was previously forbidden to engage with and observe. Through this process I expose the Church’s contradictions, problems, and flaws and create new meaning for myself and the viewer. People viewing my work might not see the allusions to LDS teachings, but I enjoy giving viewers the freedom to come up with their own interpretations