“Diehl’s best work has a primal, earthy quality. Traveling Church which is quite literally a small model church on wheels and Ark, a path-worked assemblage of wood and metal in the approximate form of a tiny diluvian boat clamped in a wood worker’s vise: it appears to be in dry-dock awaiting a re-fit, awaiting the deluge. Painting and sculpture inhabit a space where our customary ways of seeing are knocked askew. The church with wheels that John Diehl presents (traveling Church) extends the range of the possible. In a gallery we stand ready to receive new meaning - a piece of rusted sheet metal perhaps a portal to a deeper involvement in the cosmos.” — John Davis, Architect, Urbanwildland.org, 2011