These handmade duffle bags are sewn from tent canvas previously used at the Milltown and Olympia WA convention grounds for an annual church retreat held on the Washington property beginning in the year 1911. The church with no name — commonly referred to as The Truth, The Way, or The 2x2s, still hold their annual church conventions at the Milltown grounds to this day, making it one of the oldest operating conventions in the United States.

As an ex-member — 4th generation born and raised — of this secretive high-control sect (the majority of ex-members consider it very much a cult) that was started by William Irvine in 1897, chopping up this canvas and giving it a new purpose has helped me deconstruct and redefine my own ‘religious baggage’.