Hand cut collage
Paper on paper, archival tape
13 1/4” x 8 1/2”
the chapel of failed miracles (2026)
The Chapel of Failed Miracles transforms a brutalist cathedral into a site of collapse, spectacle, and uneasy worship. Steel girders frame the space like industrial bones, while stained-glass-like openings and rows of pews suggest a sanctuary built for reverence. But at the far end of the nave, where an altar might stand, a burning tree rises into the cupola, replacing salvation with ecological and spiritual catastrophe.
Above it, a carousel hovers like a warped memory of innocence refusing to stop. Below, nude figures lounge with cigarettes, cocktails, and strange companions as a hazmat-like congregation gathers in the foreground, documenting the scene as if disaster itself has become ritual.
The piece holds faith, nostalgia, desire, and catastrophe in the same impossible space. Salvation does not arrive cleanly here. It is staged, studied, contaminated, and possibly already too late. In Honey’s hands, the sanctuary becomes a theater of failed promises... a place where the world burns, the witnesses gather, and the old miracles no longer know how to save anyone.