Heart Wall, the large installation in the show, is made up of some two dozen upright cut slabs and tree trunks, their surfaces feathered with chisel marks and carved with pictographs and hollow niches. Covered in gold and aluminum leaf and accented with vermilion, they have a Byzantine or South Asian splendor.

A similar sense of human-scale monumentality comes across in an accordian-style wooden book, a collaboration with the poet Judith Barrington. Ms. Barrington's emotionally measured writing and Ms. Azara's simple emblems of handprints and footprints, of a kind familiar from Tibetan Buddhist paintings, are well matched. Neither ironic nor guileless, they make vulnerability seem like a considered choice.