Dan Donato
Abandoned Church Project
Architectural Drawing on Paper
15″ x 22″
2021
My practice stems from questioning the tension between the physical Catholic Church and my spiritual faith in God. Do I need the church to be connected to God? This project is about a Catholic Church community center located one mile from my home, abandoned for over 20 years now. The abandonment of this Church in my community has put a strain on my community faith. In this project, I documented images of the church on how it stands today, neglected. I repurposed the church by drawing how I remembered the hopeful impact this church had on my youthful community and me. The drawing now lives in my art studio, like how a lovely memory sits on a wall framed and preserved forever in spirit.