(Religious) Glory Hole is a wall-mounted sculpture that merges woodworking, architecture, and queer critique to confront religious exclusion. Constructed from two solid wood panels aligned at a 120-degree angle, each carved with a sweeping curve, the form shifts between Romanesque and Gothic arches depending on the viewer’s position. At its center, a small bronze, Madonna-like figure is suspended within the opening, transforming a devotional niche into a charged architectural void.

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The work was made in response to the artist’s hometown of Jenison, Michigan, once recognized for having the most churches on a single street, and to the vandalism of the town’s only openly gay-affirming church in 2022. By collapsing sacred architecture and subcultural spatial codes into a single form, the piece reclaims religious symbolism as a site of resistance. (Religious) Glory Hole challenges viewers to reconsider who is welcomed, who is excluded, and how belief systems might be reimagined through embodied experience and architectural intervention.