The year I began my long exit from Mormonism, I went to the Getty.
It’s a spaceship of a museum, with tall travertine walls hurtling into an audacious Southern California sky. I didn’t know it when I arrived, but I was searching for an answer to the question: What does spirituality look like outside of organized religion?
“The Universe Next Door,” a photography exhibit by the Cuban American artist Abelardo Morell, was on display that day in 2014. It transported me. Morell projected wide cityscapes onto the walls of small rooms. Other images revealed entire universes inside of a raindrop, a puddle, a bookshelf. In the mundane, he found the sublime. I was mesmerized, enchanted. I wanted to pry open the glass and step into the worlds he created. I stayed until the sun began to set on the Los Angeles skyline outside.
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