Gothic Kneeler reimagines a traditional piece of Christian furniture as a modernist object of solitary devotion. Designed for a single body, the kneeler draws from both Christian liturgical forms and transcendentalist thought, particularly Henry David Thoreau’s writings on solitude, self-reliance, and spiritual clarity found through individual communion with nature. Constructed from hardwood, the structure is anchored by a twisted Gothic arch formed from two intersecting planes set at a 120-degree angle. As the viewer moves, the arch visually shifts from Romanesque roundness to Gothic pointedness, holding aloft a small tabletop while framing a place for the knees below.

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The work asks a destabilizing question: who, or what, do we kneel for? God, the self, a lover, or a fleeting connection formed outdoors? In merging sacred architecture with cruising’s intimate encounters in nature, Gothic Kneeler proposes kneeling as both spiritual ritual and embodied exchange.