HEAVENLY MOTHER - June 2019
HEAVENLY MOTHER 
"A Mother There," https://byustudies.byu.edu/content/mother-there-survey-historical-teachings-about-mother-heaven
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From BYU Daily Herald:
"On Thursday afternoon, Ashlee Whitaker, curator of religious art at Brigham Young University’s Museum of Art, looks up at “Breath of Life (From the Dust).” The large painting, by Utah artist J. Kirk Richards, hangs just inside the entryway to the museum’s newest main floor exhibit, “The Interpretation Thereof.”
Richards’ piece depicts the creation of Adam. This isn’t an average creation piece: The Earth’s dust, which extends off the canvas in gritty swaths, swirls upward, with a partially formed Adam rising from it, seemingly pulled by God standing above him. Hovering above God is another angelic figure, but it’s not an angel. It’s Heavenly Mother.
“And here you’ve got this wonderful energy of creation,” Whitaker says excitedly, motioning her hands along the swooping shape of the dust’s upward thrust. “And he includes real dirt! It’s not just impasto. This is true dirt from the dust that is coming in to form Adam. And I love … that the apex of this triangle is the female form, it’s Heavenly Mother, which is in every way connected with the Father in this creative moment.” Scriptural accounts of The Creation don’t mention Heavenly Mother. It is a visceral and gutsy piece."
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