Holding Shards is a performance-to-camera video work exploring iconoclasm, loss, and the hope of transformation. The work builds on a live performance made in Walsingham, Norfolk (Messenger’s Lament) which examined that place’s history as a pilgrimage destination for infertile believers. The protagonist of both pieces is a smashed stained-glass saint. In this work she laments unanswered prayer and performs gestures of tenderness, grief and wonder. Filmed on location primarily in Wales, the work takes the viewer into places of ritual and regrowth. The work resides between mourning and hopefulness. Plants burst into abandoned places, light breaks into dark spaces, and the possibility of regeneration is cultivated.