This series of paintings are almost human and almost divine. The fleshy skinless suggestions of monks exist in a spectral realm and their hallowed figures are eager to be encountered in dilapidated spaces. There are tensions between the iconographic sanctity of religious imagery and the immediacy of the decay of religion.

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With intention to produce paintings as representations of mystic presence and a meditation on the erosion of the sacred, Saint produced their own saints whose faces are deliberately obscured, reinforcing an anonymity that challenges traditional saintly iconography that is rooted in the desire for ultra specificity and symbolism. This series is a vision quest for personal non-descriptive saints - unifications of all that had come before them.

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​By stripping the figure of recognisable attributes, the works invite viewers to confront the “anonymous” nature of sanctity itself, emphasising spirituality through absence, negation, and the stripping away of definitive forms or identities. The obscured identity forces the viewer to see divinity beyond individuality, aligning with La Via Negativa’s apophatic theology of rejection of anthropomorphic depictions of God.