This postOne of the members of my stake presidency invited me to go to a pre-premiere showing of a new documentary film his company is distributing. It’s the sequel to Journey of Faith, and I think it’s called The New World, but I’m not sure. :) Anyway, it’s about the Book of Mormon, and I really liked it!
Perhaps the most important part, for me, was the feeling I got from it that I need to make the Book of Mormon a bigger part of my life, particularly in my art and writing and other creative works. I want my arts to inspire people to a deeper love of the book, to set a little fire inside them that makes them want to read it and study it and find Christ through it. I’m not entirely sure yet how I’ll go about doing that, but that’s the goal. :)
And looking back over what I’ve done in the past, several of my projects have had to do with the Book of Mormon — from my Moroni 10:3–5 project to Project Cumorah (reader’s edition of the Book of Mormon) to this current Llyfr Mormon digitization project. And I’m sure much more will come out of this love affair between me and the Book of Mormon.
For tonight, here’s a setting of Alma 34:17–27 I put together in Photoshop, called “Cry Unto Him”:
Eventually I’ll get a nice high-quality PDF up on Riverglen Press. Anyway, I think I’d like to do a series of these, though hopefully with more illustration/painting, and perhaps more creative typography. We’ll see.
