So Help Me God looks at the written and visual language of the law and its consequences. Phrases like "So Help Me God" or gestures like a raised hand have little function in the application of the law, but play a large part in the performativity of legalism.

The hands, cut from their bodies, are cropped like the pigment traced hands found on cave walls. Palm forward and fingers splayed, they appear like a testimony, praise, or arrest.