Artist Information
Name: Crowder, Ben
Location(s): United States
State or City: Utah
Gender: Male
Website: https://bencrowder.net/
Instagram: @bencrowder
by Crowder, Ben
Dated 2020
Name: Crowder, Ben
Location(s): United States
State or City: Utah
Gender: Male
Website: https://bencrowder.net/
Instagram: @bencrowder
Abstract, Digital illustration
pioneer
handcart
Artist's statement: June 13, 2020. Made in Procreate and Photoshop. A reference to Francis Webster’s testimony about his experience in the Martin Handcart Company (as quoted in Gerald Lund’s book Divine Signatures, p. 90–91): "I have pulled my handcart when I was so weak and weary from illness and lack of food that I could hardly put one foot ahead of the other. I have looked ahead and seen a patch of sand or a hill slope and I have said, I can go only that far and there I must give up, for I cannot pull the load through it... I have gone on to that sand and when I reached it, the cart began pushing me. I have looked back many times to see who was pushing my cart, but my eyes saw no one. And I knew then that the angels of God were there."
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints