The Collected Graces

In The Collected Graces, Wang seeks the divine in the mud, charting a wayward course through states of pain and bliss. Ghosts, rats, flowers, and encounters with the void become dirty vehicles for ecstasy, as music, cinema, friendship, Islamic mysticism, and an abiding bibliophilia animate this meditation on immanent grace. Throughout, Wang seeks to document the sacred in the mundane—the numinous moment when one’s heart drops its guard and the aliveness of the world can enter—where everything is accorded ontological dignity, not because it is useful, but simply because it exists.