Read the Writing on Canterbury’s Walls

Canterbury Cathedral introduced a graffiti art exhibit this week. Slapped onto the walls of the once-Catholic church are questions painted in loud colors: Does our struggle mean anything? What is the architecture of love? God, what happens when we die? Are you there?

Graffiti installations are supposed to inspire “conversation between the past and the present,” the cathedral’s curator, Jacquiline Creswell, said. The various questions scattered on the historic building were designed by the vegan, queer poet Alex Vellis, who reportedly drafted the questions after meeting with “marginalized” groups in Canterbury.