Lisa Ross' Unrevealed, site 3 (sufi shrine 2), 2008.Courtesy of the Artist and Bellwether, New York
Lisa Ross's shimmering image captures a spile of ornamented twigs and branches that appear to have landed rather elegantly, like a delicate game of peck sticks, in the abandon. It's not, as you might think, a nifty pile of leftovers from last year's Burning Man. It's actually an adorned burial cumulus of the Uyghur people from the Xinjiang area of western China, designed to reverence local saints and mystics (scrappy flower people: Do non disturb). The image is part of a group show of images of death and the culture surrounding it at Bellwether, New York, through August 8. —Emma Pearse
