Gethsemane
The figure at center represents the Savior in the garden of Gethsemane, and the faint light along the right side of the painting represents the angel about to arrive.
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Holiness to the Lord
Another temple piece:
The bottom triangle represents the temples on Earth, and the top triangle represents heaven reaching down to us.
His Holy House
A new temple piece:
The individual triangles represent people and angels working in the Lord’s house to bring about his work and glory.
Their Work and Glory
A slightly more abstract piece this time:
The two triangles represent Heavenly Father (left) and Heavenly Mother (right), unified and together as they watch over their children on Earth.
Before Our Journey’s Through
The second of the three new pieces for Sacred Shapes:
I see this as a thematic companion to In Good Hands, which is also in the exhibit.
This rotary cellphone makes me happy. As does this GIF/Jif peanut butter jar.
Last night I finished writing a ray tracer for class. Super basic, no antialiasing, only a couple primitives, but still fun.
It was also my first real project in Rust. Overall, great experience. The borrow checker was mystifying at first (and admittedly still is to some degree), but it wasn’t as bad as I’d expected. And the language itself is lovely to code in. Great ergonomics, even if the syntax is occasionally intimidating. I’m excited to do more with it. (I’ve been thinking about possibly rewriting md2epub in either Rust or Go at some point.)
McArthur Krishna interviewed me over at the Seeking Heavenly Mother blog about I Have a Mother There, the painting I did for A Girl’s Guide to Heavenly Mother.
Also, here’s a straight-on view of the painting:
A Girl’s Guide to Heavenly Mother
I’m happy to announce that I have a painting included in a new book: A Girl’s Guide to Heavenly Mother, by McArthur Krishna and Bethany Brady Spalding — they did the lovely Girls Who Choose God series with Deseret Book. Here’s my piece, on the theme that Heavenly Mother helped prepare us for our earthly existence:
Other artists with pieces in Girl’s Guide: Allen TenBusschen, Ashmae Hoiland, Caitlin Connolly, Claire Tollstrup, Courtney Vander Veur Matz, Esther Candari Christiansen, Heather Ruttan, J. Kirk Richards, Jenedy Paige, Joumana Borderie, Kathy Peterson, Katrina Berg, Kwani Povi Winder, Laura Erekson, Lisa DeLong, Louise Parker, McArthur Krishna, Melissa Kamba Boggs, Michelle Franzoni Thorley, Michelle Gessell, Normandie Shael Luscher, Paige Anderson, Rachel Hunt Steenblick, Richard Lasisi Olagunju, Sherron Valeña Crisanto, Sopheap Nhem, and Susana Silva.
It’s available now for preorders and will be released next month. And in May there’ll be a gallery show at Writ & Vision in Provo, too. More on that when it gets closer.
Shoulder to the Wheel II
With Sacred Shapes, I wanted to have some new art along with the old, so people in the area who’ve already seen everything online would have a reason to go in person. This is one of the three new pieces. Newish, actually. It’s a reworking of Shoulder to the Wheel, which I felt would work better in a wintertime setting. So, with 100% more snow:
I should note, too, that I’ve tweaked this one a bit beyond what’s in the exhibit (adding more snow, mainly).