Statues can seem like an old-fashioned sort of thing. But bronze or marble or plastic or concrete, it is the image — and the care we take to represent it with skill — that encodes the values of a culture into permanent form. It is the investment we make to immortalize something longer lasting than ourselves that matters.
Each state is allowed to have two statues in the U.S. Capitol that represent the best of their people. Utah’s statues are Brigham Young, and, for the past 30 years, Philo T. Farnsworth. States are allowed to rotate their statues every 10 years.