Education in Zion

I went to the exhibit and couldn't decided what I liked the most. There were so many things that were fascinating to me there. I loved all the old looking journals, keepsakes, and displays. They are always fun to look at and examine. Like the speech that Joseph Smith had written on a piece of paper. The handwriting is in elegant cursive and yet I could hardly make out what it was saying. And there were these dance shoes that were old, worn and tattered and I just loved how they looked, I guess there's something that draws me to these old objects, I love to see that they're worn, knowing that there is some story behind them. Another thing that I thought was so elegant and lovely was the desk that was a replica to the desk of Carl G. Maeser. I would love to have a desk that looked like that in my room. All of the old visuals I found very fascinating. But what I think I liked looking at the most was the art. The murals and portraits were wonderful to look at. I thought it was funny how in one picture a man had a mustache that was huge and appeared to cover over his lips, like curtains covering his mouth. That was very amusing. But the pictures that I found most interest in were the two huge paintings found on both sides of the exhibit. They were huge and reached all the way up to the ceiling. And what I loved was that they content of the picture was only small at the bottom of both of them and the rest of the paintings were filled with sky. I'm not sure why the artist chose to do that, since I don't exactly think like a painter, but I just loved it for some reason. In one of them the sky was filled with pinkish clouds that are my favorite to see in the sky because they are so pretty. Anyway those two paintings were probably my favorite, and I think it had a lot to do with how massive they were.