PAGANUS: The Pagan Chapel

I've been making the chapel over about three years (whilst touring so not at home much). I've tried to make as much as possible out of recycled materials: the walls are made from cardboard boxes, the stonework from cereal packet card, and the pillars from pencils, painted to look like marble. 

The floor is colour printed. Some medieval tiles from Clarendon Place are displayed in the British Museum on a wall: I thought they deserved a home on a floor so using a photograph from a book, I have duplicated the tile patterns on the computer to fit my chapel floor, and then scored it to make individual tiles. 

The altar step bears the inscription 

"I am (Yahweh in Hebrew and Judaism) the Way (Tao in Chinese philosophy), the Truth (in Greek philosophy) and the Life" (Prana in Sanskrit and the Vedas). This biblical phrase is usually taken to mean that Christ is the only route to heaven, but I've always thought it should mean the opposite: that enlightenment comes from oneness with All That Is (the great creative principle I Am) and that this doctrine can be discovered in many different cultures, philosophies and religions, not just via Christianity. So in my chapel, one would have to climb this epistological step to reach the altar.