TRANSMISSION ART ARCHIVE
Prayer Antenna
2005
Created by Paul Davies.
As part of his ongoing series, Religious Technological Artifacts, Prayer Antenna takes the form of an ornately ordained helmet that has the appearance of a porcupine with antennae quills, Prayer Antenna is fitted with sufficient surveillance technology to receive signals from the gods. As Davies writes, "The Prayer Antenna allows visitors, or "supplicants," to put their heads into the helmet to receive sounds in the right ear from the God of the Right Shoulder, and in the left ear from the God of the Left Shoulder."