The Darkroom performance and its resulting Rat-o-gram Relics tap into a growing cultural movement of people who are questioning institutional religion but still seeking spiritual meaning. The performance & its relics align with the rise of deconstructionist theology, progressive spirituality, and the rejection of binary structures. As audiences worldwide navigate religious trauma, spiritual evolution, and non-binary identities, the work provides a healing.

The collaboration between Saint, the bodies of Egon and Schiele The Rats, and The Monk is a first step in the funerary rites of The Rats one of whose death was the catalyst to Saint meeting their fully formed Monk homunculus. They set about creating unification in a Christian & Buddhist ceremony so that The Rats would be ready for ascension.

Using the defrosting cadavers of The Rats to make Rat-o-gram relics their bodies were immortalised in a peaceful state whilst Saint was attached to a large wooden cruciform via noose. Staging the giving of their own life to free their beloved rats, the self sacrificial offering intended to set The Rat's souls free. The performance embodied Christ’s passion and the Buddhist Bodhisattvas who work toward the enlightenment of all beings, not just themselves

The Monk blessed the ceremony throughout with throat sang chants and a Tibetan rendition of The Lords Prayer in the style of a Russian Orthodox Choir and the multiple apparitions of life-like fur appearing on the rat-o-gram bodies leads naturally to the assumption of Divine intervention at work through Saint who states,