About This Exhibit

In 2021 the artist Clint Whiting began to seriously contemplate the mediations of life. With a world in turmoil and facing solemn personal and health challenges, which left him unsure whether he would be able to continue to paint, the artist turned to his art for solace. Moreover, he was comforted by his belief that there are those who we cannot see who are actively assisting us day to day. Indeed, families and friends beyond this life turn their hearts to the living well before the living turn to them. As President John Taylor professed, God’s “angels are round and about us, and they are more interested in us than we are in ourselves, ten thousand times, but we do not know it.”

Through art’s divine ability to represent more than what we can see, Whiting’s series illustrates how we are all linked together and participants in the great chain of life. He created scenes that reveal that charity is not bound to this life, but one of the great arcs of existence. “No one comes from nothing,” the painter insists, “and we are lifted by those who came before us.” At some point, we, in turn, will have the opportunity of lifting others, and so on, and so forth.