BA.KU.

Worship the Barrier

Pallas Mail • October 2025
 

Barrier Kult — Field Notes

The mask returns.
The ritual repeats.
The barrier remains.

This series began as an inquiry into surface—how devotion, anonymity, and repetition leave marks more lasting than identity. Each frame became a record of touch: leather softening, concrete whitening, chemistry slipping across the Polaroid’s edge.

The Barrier Kult lives within that repetition. Their worship is motion against resistance. The barrier—civil infrastructure, overlooked and unsacred—is elevated through impact. The act becomes a prayer to endurance and decay. What began in secrecy grew into folklore, its imagery traveling through rumor, sound, and scarred concrete.

These photographs trace that myth back to its material body. Not reportage, not homage, but a kind of séance with the artifact. Objects shot like relics. Portraits framed like icons. The film’s emulsion blooms and bruises as though it, too, has taken a hit.

Every piece of this work belongs to the same liturgy:
The glove as relic.
The mask as vow.
The barrier as altar.
The act as scripture.

Beauty, here, is a contradiction—found in abrasion, born from discipline, witnessed through patience.

This is where ritual meets ruin.
Where concrete remembers the hand that struck it.
Where myth, devotion, and film each fracture—and persist.

Devotion is measured in ruin.
Worship the barrier.
All else is fraud. 

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To see more of the shoot on my site; BA.KU.

Enjoy these efforts as much as I have bringing them to life. 

Brendan