High Gods Altars February 2019 Phu Quoc Island, Vietnam. In front of each house of the island, a pillar. Wood, concrete, bricks and stone form vertical elements, in style with the house, to support offerings: flowers, liquors and incense sticks. As a photographer and architect, I wonder: how can the human being build the sacred? How can we build something ineffable with tangible elements? How do we aspire to connect with the High? Verticality. Wondering through the island, different designs display how informal architecture can link the human and the superhuman; on top of the altar, the smoke coming from the incense directly transforms the tangible into the intangible, forming a string to the high Gods. The series is part of ongoing research thought Europe and Asia, collecting informal spiritual settings in order to understand how informal design constructs the sacred.