Visiting the Mystery
Diorama in 5+ parts

Artist Statement
Our sense of Western America and its animals will soon necessarily become bound by the material cultures inherent to all traditions of worship. When the Mystery happens to a rancher south of Hooper, just as with anyone hoping not to move about blindly in today’s eternal gloom, he opens his land to the people. The locals visit the cow, offering what they can: their best spoon, blessed stones, anything they know about dedication and prayer. A mother and child visit to pay a debt for surviving an illness. A young boy hangs an angel in the tree in the hopes that the cow will be protected tonight. The cow blesses him with a solitude. 

Grace Kennison