Oct. Theme Show: Spooky Mormon Hell Dream

Spooky Mormon Hell Dream

It’s that time again! Our yearly display of our spookiest works – from outright unsettling to emotionally devastating to playful explorations of the things that used to make us afraid – Spooky Mormon Hell Dream celebrates the darkness.

Meet the Artists

We are honored to feature the art of these talented individuals and the courage they embody to speak of truths that deeply personal and often painful.

The Golden Chain – c.2022

Cortney Cook

This piece depicts dissociation. The dissociative protectors offer flowers without knowing they are poisonous.

Exile, I – c. 2022

Cortney Cook

Exiled part of my past being freed and heard

Untitled – c.2021

Cortney Cook

The pain immediately before the turning point of my healing. Releasing myself from beauty standards, accepting my body as my own. 

Cemetery of the Skull – c.2024

Nate Krzymowski

#1 in a series, all taken at European cemeteries on B&W 35mm film. This series reflects the melancholy, almost haunting dark beauty I feel (and find) in both B&W photography, and old cemeteries. There is a duality to these two contrasting elements that I attempt to capture in this series. (Assebroek Cemetery, Brügge, Belgium)

It’s Too Bad – c.2024

Tina Jones

“I don’t believe in god anymore, I don’t believe in my father either,” – Nicola Yoon

I suppose that just as a belief in heaven can assuage one’s fear of death, a belief in hell can be a helpful way to redirect one’s anger. It’s too bad I don’t believe in hell anymore. It would be nice to believe my father is going to hell, that we live in a just universe where everyone will get what they deserve. But after my faith crisis I simply can’t believe it works that way.

Porter Ring-well – c.2022

Sage Turk

Joseph Smith’s personal assassin and bodyguard, Porter Rockwell was known to both Mormon and Non-Mormons alike as ‘The Avenging Angel’ and the ‘American Samson’ for the rumor that he was unkillable as long as he never cut his hair. It was also said that if you crossed him, you only had 7 days to live and that his piercing blue eyes would be the last thing you would see before you died.

Psych-oil – c.2022

Sage Turk

Most post-mormons agree – the temple is a scary place. But few parts are as disturbing as the Annointing Ceremony. Prior to receiving one’s endowments – the ultimate goal of attending the temple – one is first required to disrobe and enter a room where a temple worker will dip their fingers in oil and then touch various points on the new initiate’s body. And if that isn’t Psycho, I don’t know what is.

Hekate / Eve – c.2024

Sage Turk

Who better to embody the mother and progenitor of all witches than Eve? She who relinquished her divinity for the gift of knowledge, she who chose to follow Lucifer and know freedom than serve as a plaything to a cruel god who would keep her caged.

Holy Ghost Child – c.2024

Sage Turk

One of Joseph Smith’s more bizarre and upsetting teachings was that children who died before the age of 8 would remain as children in the afterlife forever – describing a vision where he saw hundreds of thousands of ‘Infants on Thrones’. The thought of children dying only to continue in the afterlife as scared children, orphans without a home, terrifies me.

Blood Atonement – c.2024

Sage Turk

The early mormon doctrine of blood atonement was as simple as it was bleak. If Jesus could use his blood to absolve all sin, why not use a mans’ blood to absolve his own. How often this practice was really used we will never know, but it remains the reason why Utah is the only state in the union to still offer prisoners the options to be killed via firing squad.

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