Visitors to a new sculpture garden in Utah walk up a winding hillside pathway through 130 bronze sculptures and into the pages of the Book of Mormon and Bible, where they will find five depictions of Jesus Christ, the empty tomb, the iron rod and a great and spacious building.
At the top of the hill, Christ stands in front of the white trunk, branches and leaves of a bronze Tree of Life, beckoning all to come to him to find love and peace.
“I put Christ by the Tree of Life so we don’t have to wonder and try to figure out what the symbolism is of the Tree of Life,” sculptor Angela Johnson said. “It’s the love of God manifested in Christ. I just don’t want to dodge the topic anymore.”
Two massive sculpture gardens, almost side by side
The Tree of Life Garden is just a few yards past the opening to the Light of the World Garden — also sculpted by Johnson — that opened in 2016 at Ashton Gardens at Thanksgiving Point in Lehi, Utah.
The two gardens display 21 sculptures of Jesus Christ and 165 total sculptures.