Communion presents sculptures and installation work made from re- purposed, destroyed, and corrupted church pews, and remade Amer- ican and Christian flags in a chapel-like gallery with audio, video, and photographic documentation to expose relationships between the pa- triotic, sacred, and often violent power structures in American political culture and Christianity. These broader themes are examined through my own personal past, growing up in southern evangelical Christianity, which I offer to the viewer as an intimate record of embodied moments. Through the work, a methodology of deconstruction is proposed: one that asks to test our most deeply held beliefs and in the potential ruin, to discover the beauty and empathy exposed through doubt.