1993e_Back_Yard_Turner.txt Division 2. Body. Section A. Astrophysical. Section B. Geological. Section C. Biological. Owner: Paul Frederick Nelson Chapter III. Creation View: 180 degrees Type: Garden View Location: Back Yard Perspective: 1 Season: Summer Family: Family Time Scales: 2 Time: Afternoon Concept: Earth Interval: 7 "Organizing Times This painting is a metaphor for the creation of the earth within the context of our backyard garden and the pool The backyard is where we create. What we create is scalable both temporally and spatially. There are seven organizing times recited in the books of Genesis in the Bible, and of Moses and Abraham in the Pearl of Great Price and in the temple endowment course of instruction (The House of the Lord by James E. Talmage, Desert Book Company, 1976, p. 83.). The first creative period includes the division of light from darkness. Notice that the painting is half day and half night. Second the waters were divided under the firmament and above the firmament, as is shown by the pool and the sky, and "the Earth came up dry land." The rocks are from different geological periods, with the three large rocks representing volcanic, metamorphic, and sedimentary processes. Third, the Earth brought fort grass, herbs, and fruit trees. The greenhouse represents Kolob, from which seeds of all kinds were planted on the Earth to "yield fruit after its own kind," and the yard represents the biological creation. The fourth creative period provides a greater light to rule the day (the soccer ball) and a lesser light to rule the night (the moon above the house, and the fire pit crescent in the cement deck). Revolving around the soccer ball, which has been hurled by the owner of this painting, Paul, is our solar system, representing the atmospheric scale. If you don't know they are there, it is easy to miss Mercury, Venus, the Moon and the Earth (passing through different stages of plate tectonics), Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. This creative period is tied to all of the paintings in that each painting is at a different time of the day and a different season of the year. Fifth, the waters bring forth moving creatures and fowl which fly above the Earth. This is the first painting to pick up the jet vapor in the sky, which carries the most recent creature to fly above the Earth. Sixth, living creatures, like our pet Bichon, Einstein, are brought forth "after their own kind." The soccer ball hits the spa, creates a big bang (astrophysical scale) and "a mist that waters the ground" (geological scale). Tongue in cheek, the artist put Marti and I in the bushes watching Ben and Melanie and Rob in the pool, representing our first parents, Adam and Eve. There is also an apple, a star falling from heaven, and the snake. Roice is on the roof, watching the artist paint at night. The starburst design is repeated in the lights in our family temple of hope in a dark world, where Sara is practicing her harp. During the seventh creative period the Gods rested.