On view at the FLAG Art Foundation through January 2026, As Above So Below is a quietly compelling meditation on how objects, ritual, and belief intertwine—inviting the viewer to consider how the sacred and the everyday reflect each other. 

The title is drawn from the Emerald Tablet, an ancient, Hellenic text which suggests that what happens in the heavens is mirrored on earth and, to that end, if objects have meaning, so too may we. The show gathers works spanning from the 16th century to the present. 

Artworks assume the form of altarpieces, reliquaries, icons, even constructs of a fictive universe, with materials of daily life—found trinkets, commercial items, bones, buttons— transformed into objects of transcendence.

Then there are works less anchored in found-objects than in world-making. Charles Avery’s sculpture “Maquette for the Eternity Chamber, the Palace of the Gulls” conjures a fictional cosmology—an imagined island universe where every rock, every inhabitant, carries philosophical weight. 

What makes “As Above, So Below” particularly resonant to FSA is how it bridges the intimate and the cosmic, showcasing how art can serve as spiritual conduit, how meaning is both discovered and assigned, and how sacredness may reside in the very fabric of material life.