After my father died, my mother handed me a stack of his funeral cards and said, "Why don't you make something from these?" The cards honor his name (Gino Pierleoni, so close to mine), birth/death dates and the images and religious practice that was important to him. I wondered whether there would be a point during the alteration process when these religious figures might no longer be considered sacred. As the images transformed from Jesus, Mary and the Saints to become regular people, the images remained sacred.