The installation Tonight Shall be My Calvary delves into the artist's curiosity concerning spirituality and where it resides in the context of contemporary western culture. This strange untidy setting stands in quiet contrast to the order and tradition that we perceive in the image of a man taking his religious belief to another realm. Doren has created a space filled with alternative spiritual clues that at once honor and unravel some of the signs traditionally read as Christian signs of spirituality. He seems to be creating a space for the spirituality that surrounds the deceased man's religion and Doren's own quest for where that spirituality resides for himself, or the viewer.

"…Doren creates a disturbing effect of processed piety,
an uneasy confrontation with the ritualization of death."

- Mike Winters, See weekly, Edmonton July 13, 2000


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