Canterbury Cathedral’s ‘Hear Us’ ‘art installation’, in which the heart of English Christianity has been covered in fake graffiti, has caused outcry and anger. The exhibition, which according to the Cathedral involved ‘collaboration with marginalised communities’ covered much of the building’s interior with stickers which they say have been ‘expertly and sensitively affixed to the Cathedral’s stone pillars, walls and floors’. The stickers ask questions such as ‘Are you there?’, ‘Why did you create hate when love is by far more powerful?’, ‘God, what happens when we die?’ and ‘Does everything have a soul?’

The questions posed are unexceptional and often the wording itself slips into the language of a business email or one of those dreary LinkedIn posts

The response has been overwhelmingly

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