Items of Interest October 17, 2011 Issue

Artist’s chapel aims to redefine sacred space

Rosalina Nieves

“Artist behind inflatable chapel aims to redefine sacred space” Courtesy CNN August 31, 2011

At first glance, the blown-up plastic bags affixed to a jungle gym-like frame residing in a University of California courtyard look like a piece of public art, pure and simple.

But the structure’s creator says it’s something more: a sacred place for people of all faiths. He calls it an inflatable chapel.

“I wanted to create a spiritual structure, so I combined every symbolic piece of religion and geometrically combined them to represent them in this chapel,” says Gail Peter Borden, an architect and assistant professor at the USC School of Architecture who designed the structure.

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