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# Scenes From the Chapel
- URL: https://www.jamesreeves.co/scenes-from-the-chapel/
- Published: 2021-09-17T01:07:40.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-15T03:49:21.000Z
- Author: James A. Reeves

A pair of snapshots from installing a new project in the chapel at Green-Wood Cemetery: last month we started painting the first of 2,880 holes, and last night [Candy Chang](http://candychang.com/?ref=jamesreeves.co) applied the final touches as she balanced on top of a precarious platform of light. Of all our projects together, I’m most proud of this one. It’s certainly the most personal.

After losing my parents, I did not have religion or tradition to ground me. Whenever I visit a church, temple, or cemetery, I find myself craving a gesture or ceremony that might provide a sense of connection, even coherence. Perhaps these things can be invented. Maybe they’ll lead me to some sort of patchwork 21st-century faith.

*[After the End](https://www.green-wood.com/aftertheend/?ref=jamesreeves.co)* is now on view through November 10\. More photos and a proper project description coming soon…

#### [M83 – In Church](http://jamesr323.sg-host.com/radio/In%20Church.mp3?ref=jamesreeves.co)

###### From *Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts* | Gooom, 2003 | [More](https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/5006-dead-cities-red-seas-lost-ghosts/?ref=jamesreeves.co)

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