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transfigurist Artwork Series

Every generation of Saints has faced a frontier. Theirs was to cross plains, raise cities in the desert, and consecrate ordinary labor to an extraordinary vision of what humanity might yet become. Ours is to carry that same consecrated imagination into territory the pioneers could only have dreamed of: the molecular architecture of aging, the engineering of worlds, the long voyage outward into the cosmos.

The Mormon Transhumanist Association’s artwork series was made for people who feel that tension most acutely⁠—believers who love their tradition and refuse to let it stop short of the stars. Each piece takes the visual grammar of the pioneer era and the optimism of mid-century space art and points them together toward the same question Brigham Young asked standing at the edge of the Salt Lake Valley: this is the place⁠—but what comes next? A prophet lifts his arm over a freshly landed colony. A celestial habitat wheels above a young blue world, faith and engineering made one. Sisters of the RS Terraform Corps raise habitable domes on red Martian cliffs. A generational starship charts its course through the void. An outpost on an icy moon answers the restless Latter-day charge to discover, build, and bless every world we encounter.

While playful, these images aren’t ironic. They’re faithful. They take seriously the proposition that the Restoration isn’t finished⁠—that Zion is a project with no ceiling, that “worlds without end” is an invitation to meaningful work, and that the pioneers who settled one impossible place were practicing for something larger. Put one of these prints on your wall. Let your guests ask questions. Then tell them that the gathering is still underway, the frontier is still open, and someone has to go first.