David Marshall Habben Peace Be Still Analysis

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The piece I chose to do my gallery write up on is called “Peace, Be Still”. The artist is David Marshall Habben, and the piece was located at the Byu Museum of Art. The piece is done with Acrylic ink on paper. In this artwork there is figure of a woman kneeling, with her hands reaching up to two other hands. In the right hand it hold a paintbrush. In the left hand it's holding a bottle of something (wine maybe to symbolism the sacrament?) under the hand with the paintbrush is a picture of the temple. The background goes from green, to blue, to pink, then orange, and finally back to blue. Behind the woman you can see mountains, they could be there to also reference the temple, as it was sometimes called a mountain in the bible. The connection