THE VOTIVE · BURNING · EVER LIT

PRAYER CANDLES

light a votive and it burns twenty-four real hours where everyone can see it · the chambers keep the hours at /prayer-altars and /prayer-altars-evening · the bells hang at /prayer-bells

Pink and teal patchwork falling to a soft sea Green patch morning with rocks going gold
Orange-paneled house with stairs down the bluff White modern house floating over pink rocks
Gold octagon sun over a dark tide rock Monolith standing in the channel under warm panels
Pale quilt of rock and sand at the waterline Sea stack wrapped in evening color squares
Striped signal field over mint tide rocks Gold-leaf weather over a low tide line
Color columns climbing the sea cliff Lone pine keeping the collaged cove
Round house in a patchwork of village walls Blueprint grid holding three grey rocks

LIGHT A CANDLE

choose an intention · one candle a minute

THE WALL every flame is someone · newest first

— the wall waits for its first flame —

HOW THIS WORKS

  1. Pick one of the eleven intentions — the ten hours of the morning and evening chambers, plus the bell of the Angelus — and light a candle. It appears on the wall for everyone, tinted by its station, and burns out after twenty-four real hours.
  2. Lighting a candle is also a prayer — it counts on the wing's perpetual ledger. One candle a minute; flames are honest work.
  3. The seven windows above hold fourteen more pieces of Mike's Midjourney session of July 18 — ninety-eight of its four hundred fifty-five now hang across the wing. The walk winds at /prayer-labyrinth. The whole session lives at /gallery.
  4. Hover any flame to see its intention and age. Candles are anonymous beyond a six-character ember of a session id. Nothing else is kept.

peace be with you