Growing Rocks is an art exhibition at the
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art that envelops viewers in between time, catching them pondering their initial thoughts about nature and the very concept of time itself. Artist Brad Evan Taylor does not dabble in small, delicate sculptures, but rather ceramic masses that exist on a human scale, displaying the relation of these masses to the artist’s own body. Another interesting detail is that Taylor’s body is listed as one of the prominent tools in this exhibit’s construction. An important question that Taylor poses to us is, ”What does it take to give an object a sense of deep time, or even lack of linear time?” This question is made apparent by