After leaving work a little early on friday I decided I’d head south from Park City and go visit some friends in provo. I had a misconception that Provo was closer to Park City than Ogden, I was way wrong. — Provo could quite possibly be the farthest both geographically and ideologically from it. When I arrived in Provo I had a few hours to kill before planning to meet up with Kate and Neil so I went to the BYU museum of art to see their exhibit Beholding Salvation. The exhibit really brought in some nice prints and paintings and is worth checking out, but I was a little confused by the juvenility of many of the explanations accompanying the works of art, which seemed to be apologizing for the way Christian artist had depicted christ for centuries. Had my religion (Mormonism) developed a completely new set of theological rules, with regard to art, rules that force explanations and apologies to be attached to images about the Virgin Mary? This last summer I took a course covering the Renaissance in Florence, through that course I developed a greater love and respect for religious paintings, and as consequence I have come to believe that art needs to play a greater role in our societies beliefs. Just as the Bible and In my case the Book of Mormon are revered as Holy Scriptures I hold a believe that many of artist (including those of the renaissance) play(ed) an important part in sharing spiritual knowledge. 
The following day Neil and I set out to film the first episode the saturday documentaries, which we didn’t finish or even really start. Instead we toured the Model homes in Day Break (Neil’s Thoughts) After a morning of touring houses we made our way to the latest exhibit at the UMFA I was excited to see this exhibit, but I as soon as we entered the exhibition room the security guard informed me that it was closing, From what I saw it looked really good and I’ll be back.
This post should have been three separate ones but I’m kind of liking the schizophrenia treatment of topics. Thanks for reading.
February 20, 2007 at 12:00 pm
I am going to be in McCall, Idaho next week watching the freestyle snowboarding championships, you’ll be in D.C., and Steve will be in Utah. What an opportunity to make a 3 location S.D.
February 20, 2007 at 1:42 pm
Yeah that will be great I’ll talk with Stevie, I’ll have to use my 1.3 mega pixel cell phone to do the capturing (oh wait I could use still images and put it together in a power point presentation, I hear those are all the rage this year.)
February 26, 2007 at 3:01 pm
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