With Quiet Hands

Exhibited: The rOGUE Gallery, Eastern Edge, St. John’s, NL

With Quiet Hands is a series of watercolour paintings that explore the delicate balance between tradition and modernity. Through a reverent celebration of butchery as both craft and ritual, the work reflects on our relationships with food, identity, and sustainability.

The paintings are drawn directly from Dominix’s first hand experience on a local farm where she learnt how to process animals. By witnessing and participating in this work, Dominix translates physical skill into a visual language, where the act of butchery becomes a meditation on attention, precision, and respect. Here, butchery is framed not only as skill but as ritual.

The series echoes oblatio, the language of offering and sustenance, and invites the viewer to confront our modern detachment from food’s origins. These works ask us to reconsider the reverence and gifts embedded in these acts of preparation, transformation, and care.