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The artwork is designed to first help us see ourselves in the events, to help us imagine the people’s struggles and joys—to feel a mother’s fears as an invading army marches down her street or the excitement as someone steps into the waters of baptism. The principles taught might then be more easily recognized and applied.
Additionally, the artwork was designed to help us see the events with a fresh perspective, consider novel ideas, gather new insights, think differently about the lessons taught in the pages. These paintings urge us to ask questions, start conversations, make connections, think, and share. They seek to draw us to the words of Christ. They invite us to learn more and inspire us to change.
On the other hand, the paintings were not designed to illustrate the events with any degree of historical accuracy. Without knowing the location of the events, the architecture, clothing, or styles of the times, any visual depiction of these events would be incredibly inaccurate. As a result, I intentionally made two critical decisions.
First, I chose not to maintain visual continuity between images. The people and places are purposefully portrayed differently in each painting both to constantly reiterate my visual ignorance and to avoid pigeon-holing you into one inaccurate visual representation of the events.
Second, the artwork is placed in a variety of contemporary settings. For example, Moronihah stands before a pile of surrendered guns and Nephi is arrested by a modern police force. While we know this is historically inaccurate, our end is not to recreate the events with historical precision, but to make a path for people to to experience and learn from the lessons embedded in the Book of Helaman.
Many of the pieces are symbolic representations or include symbols of spiritual concepts. To help you better understand the artwork, each piece has a title underneath it. These artist comments have been added in italics and are on a grey background for the digital version of the book. While these comments are not intended to explain all the symbols in each painting, they do try to help people:
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