{"id":35001,"date":"2016-09-10T23:06:15","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T05:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=35001"},"modified":"2023-11-14T09:49:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T15:49:04","slug":"the-gospel-according-to-ralphael","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/the-gospel-according-to-ralphael\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gospel According to Ralphael"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Artist Ralphael Plescia died earlier this month (Aug. 2022), leaving the future of his unique work of outsider art in Salt Lake City in doubt.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In his honor, we are rerunning this video piece from 2016.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/171180640\" width=\"620\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nFor nearly 50 years, Ralphael Plescia has been making religious art to explore the story of creation in his private museum in Salt Lake City, Utah.<\/p>\n<p>His project has one overriding vision: to tell the story of Biblical creation in the right way by restoring characters and tales lost to history. The sculptures and paintings are not within the rooms, but are a part of them. Underground tunnels have been hollowed out to make space for Hell and the Garden of Eden. Narrow pathways and bridges traverse groundwater bubbling up from below.<\/p>\n<p>He believes the building has a 98% of being bulldozed when he dies, but that knowledge does not stop him from working every day to complete his life\u2019s work.<\/p>\n<p><b>Directed by<br \/>\n<\/b>Travis Low and Torben Bernhard<\/p>\n<p><b>Produced by<br \/>\n<\/b>OHO Media <i>(ohomedia.com)<br \/>\n<\/i>15 Bytes <i>(<a href=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">artistsofutah.org<\/a>)<\/i><br \/>\nVideoWest <i>(<a href=\"http:\/\/videowest.kuer.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">videowest.kuer.org<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Cinematography and Color<br \/>\n<\/b>Torben Bernhard<\/p>\n<p><b>Sound Design and Mixing<br \/>\n<\/b>Travis Low<\/p>\n<p><b>Story Production and Editing<\/b><br \/>\nMarissa Lila<br \/>\n<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472963337921_168051\" style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">with Torben Bernhard and Travis Low<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll find a discussion of the film as well as Ralphael&#8217;s project at <a href=\"http:\/\/radiowest.kuer.org\/post\/gospel-according-ralphael\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KUER&#8217;s RadioWest.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist Ralphael Plescia died earlier this month, leaving the future of his unique work of outsider art in Salt Lake City in doubt.<\/p>\n<p>In his honor, we are rerunning this video piece from 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,17,14],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-35001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-15-bytes","category-artist_profiles","category-visual_arts","tag-15-bytes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Ralphael-Still-11.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 12:46:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35001"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71202,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35001\/revisions\/71202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}