The works in Stan Squirewell’s Discovery series are founded on the concept of character creation and a ritualised rebuilding of a new identity using the holy trinity of the artist’s work: painting, photography, and sculpture. Squirewell uses found historic photographs of Black people, whose complex identities have been erased either through time or design, as a starting point. He then layers them with collage, painting, and photography, with each new element undergoing a ritualised burning that is an abstracted nod to mythology, lore, and Judeo-Christian rituals. Using the Shou Sugi Ban technique of blackening wood, Squirewell then sculpts unique frames for each image, beginning with the transcription of a text statement on the work composed of binary code and indigenous American and African glyphs, which he then mitres into frames.