1993d_Music_Room_Turner.txt

Division 2. Body. Section A. Laws  Secton B, God.  Section C. Spirits.  
Owner:         Benjamin Bengt Nelson
Chapter II. Pre-Existence
View:          360 degrees horizontally
Type:          Interior
Location:      Music Room
Perspective:   4
Season:        Spring
Family:        Eternal Perspective
Scales:        2
Time:          Early Morning
Concept:       Heaven
Interval:      1 Day Reading

This is a 360 degree horizontal perspective of our music room; an eternal,
timeless, recursive perspective.  This is Ben's painting and on the left he is
coming down the stairs as a youth, on the right as an old man and in the
center he is leaning on the guitar cas as an infant.  The stairs come down
"from heaven" and return again, as do our lives.  Not only is the painting a
360 degree view of the room, but of Ben's life.  The guitar case is prominent
in this and each of the other paintings, providing a connection to the songs
that accompany each chapter.  I am reading an eldo (electronic document) and
Marti is playing the harp, both of which are symbolic of the spiritual
creation.  The heads are so small that there is not a very good likeness to
either of us.  The world is a globe on the table stand and is literally at
our fingertips.  The grand piano is offset against a synthesizer in the open
roll top desk. Musical instruments from India, England, Jakarta, China, India,
Yugoslavia, Nigeria, Hungary, and Australia are on top of the bookshelf. The
painting of the St. George Temple is reflected on the piano.  The stenciling
in the hall was hand-painted by Marti.  The scriptures are open to Abraham
3:22, and his account of the intelligences that were organized before the
world was.  It is nice that light in the room made starburst pattern on the
ceiling.  This pattern is always a symbol of power.  A pattern in the starburst
represents the crown of eternal light upon God's head, as illustrated in
Figure 3 of Facsimile 2 in the Book of Abraham.  When Rembrandt did paintings of
Christ he always, even in his sketches, included a crown of light.  Notice
that one-third of the stars (points of light in the ceiling) fell from heaven
and two-thirds supported the Savior.  The books and music symbolize the
pre-existence before they are read and/or prior to their performance.  The
library represents the collective knowledge of the world and includes the key
religious records of Arabia, China, Egypt, England, India, Israel, Japan,
Meso-America, Mexico, Persia, Russia, and Yugoslavia with an emphasis on
"Mormonism," western history, and the mind.  The artist, Ken Turner, is a
small blurred reflection in the hall tree.