The Sanctuary of Hope was destroyed by an electrical fire. The corner store church was left a rotten husk without heat, plumbing, or electricity. We moved in one year after the fire. We kept the sign in the front and decided to remake the church in our likeness.

The Sanctuary of Hope is an antinomian church. It is a critique as well as a response to the cultural tradewinds of religion and art and possibly an antidote to the atrophy and decay of both. The church is a generator. By implementing primitive ritualistic elements into a modern context, we draw the line back to a time when there was no distinction between ritual and congress. The church as found object opens the possibility of an inherently social sculpture without any comparable medium. We are a church unlike any other, yet our appearance is one of assimilation to the local landscape. The nature of the project involves action and assembly. It is a meeting place for the dissemination and conflict of ideas. We hold seasonal events with proxy religious themes open to the interpretation of those invited to be involved. Workshops and tutorials, demonstrations and interventions, provide the essence of an alternative teaching with which we cultivate our service to public life. The movement of the church is above all an arc of immanence.

The project is temporary. The lease sets the terms of engagement. It is to last three years.