Want a closer look at the Utah 5? 🔎
Here’s how the artist Paul Pederson brought it to life! It’s fascinating watching the design process, especially when that involves some revisions to get it just right.
This artwork is filled with symbolism and Easter eggs unique to the Beehive State. Did you catch any of them? 👇
🧺 Features the virtue Devotionis (Devotion), holding a basket filled with early pioneer crops
⛪ One of Utah’s most historic structures, the Salt Lake City Temple, rises in the distance
🌳 In the background grows a native cottonwood tree
🖋️ The tree trunk is carved with the word “Deseret” in the Deseret alphabet, and the UV layer reveals its English translation
🐝 A beehive hangs from the tree’s branches, a symbol of Utah’s identity
📖 The enduring principle is “Out of small things proceedeth that which is great.” — D&C 64:33