Diary of a Church Mouse

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I think the current trend in LDS art is for artists to look to their cultural and ethnic roots for inspiration, using Mormonism as a lens for their roots or their roots as a lens for their Mormonism. For example, an artist named Ahmed Jamal Qureshu made a piece called “Mazmuur Naafi: The Arabic Psalm of Nephi” where he uses Islamic calligraphy to look at a passage from the Book of Mormon.

But when the artist comes from a Mormon-centric background, like multigenerational members in Utah because it turns into an ouroboros of culture. And that gets stuff like this piece from the ARCH-HIVE’s latest show:

I think they’re both great, but I think it’s interesting that they’re both doing basically the same thing.

Fun update on that first art piece: a print of it is part of the Church History Museum's current exhibit, along with other very unique pieces from throughout church history.

This is going to be my Archtober 2024 runner post. If you see this a bunch, sorry, but you should get in on this.

Archtober day 1: Undead

Archtober Day 2: Hymn

Archtober Day 3: Weeping

Archtober Day 4: Sandstone

Getting caught up on Archtober with days 5 & 6

Day 5: Dirty

And

Day 6: Soda

Still getting caught up on Archtober with days 7&8

Day 7: Spooky

Day 8: Combination

This is going to be my Archtober 2024 runner post. If you see this a bunch, sorry, but you should get in on this.

Archtober day 1: Undead

Archtober Day 2: Hymn

It's that time of year again! Starting today (October 1), join the ARCH-HIVE for our annual creative challenge, with 31 prompts for each day of the month or 16 paired prompts if you'd like to mix it up.

You can do as many or as few of the prompts as you'd like, in any medium—just be sure to tag us here, on instagram, or on twitter so we can see what you've come up with. We'll also be watching the #archtober2024 tag, and can't wait to see what people make!

hiiiiiii look what camilla made!!

My Brother got Baptized last month, and his favorite song is "Armies of Helaman"

So, I painted a Book of Mormon for his Baptism (and disclaimer, I'm definitely no Professional Artist. This is just something fun I wanted to do for my Lil Bro)

On the Front, we have a Son of Helaman

On the Side, we have "Book of Mormon" & his Initials in Deseret

On the Back, I have a line from the song "Bring 🌎 His Truth")

And just inside the Front Cover, a Deseret Alphabet Chart

This is an excellent example of Mormon Folk art. Painting Book of Mormons (Books of Mormon?) is something I've seen many times, usually it's with flower designs or temples. Painting a human subject is a twist I haven't seen too often and I don't think I've ever seen the Deseret Alphabet utilized so this is an wonderful expansion of the preexisting body of folk art.

This month on the HIVE-BLOG, enjoy a poem from Corey Landon Wozniak!