NT - Museum of Art

This week we went to the MOA on campus for a part of class. We walked through the "Types and Shadows: Intimations of Divinity" exhibit. I think my favorite piece was this one entitled "Exchange No. 8" by Ron Richmond. The colors are what's most intriguing to me, how the red cloth is draped over the fallen chair while the white cloth is placed over the upright chair. The red color, however, is still reflected off of the white cloth. When I first saw this piece, I immediately thought of myself as the fallen chair covered in the red scarlet of sin bowing down to my Savior, the perfect upright one in white who Atoned for my sins. As we looked at this piece as a class, however, the MOA assistant stated that she thought of it as both chairs being herself. The overthrown chair was symbolic of putting off the natural man, and the standing chair was her repentant self, with the red reflection being the memory of her past sins staying with her to remind her never to go back. Interesting. I can see it both ways.

Throughout the exhibit, I think the themes stood out to me most.
Themes of perseverance,
of hard work,
of grief,
of pain,
and of the magnificent lOvE of the Almighty that comforts them all.