Foreground: Angela Ellsworth - "Seer Bonnets", 2011, pins, fabric, steel, wood,
Background, from the left: Nate Lowman - "Town Truck", steel, paint, rust, Jonathan Durham - "Slow Burns", 2011, video.

Phoenix, Arizona based Angela Ellsworth's Seer Bonnets are objects that reference female physicality and spirituality. The artist was raised as a Mormon and although she is no longer a member of the church, her work has been heavily inspired by its history and culture. She is the great-great-granddaughter of Lorenzo Snow, a Mormon prophet and the fifth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) as well as a polygamist.

The series of bonnets represent Snow's wifes and the pearl pins refer to "seer stones", an important element of revelations in the history of the LDS. Ellsworth's work serves as a visual metaphor of women's life in LDS and FLDS (fundamental Mormon) communities: outside the bonnets are beautiful and elaborate but from inside look like instruments of torture and oppression.