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A Journey Through Faith and Fun at Kentucky’s Ark Encounter
Step Aboard the 510-Foot Ark and Explore Faith, Adventure and Innovation at Williamstown’s Ark Encounter.
September 26th, 2025
I ‘Noah’ must see location in Kentucky.
In Williamstown, Kentucky, there is a destination unlike anywhere else. A place that took one of the most beloved and well-known stories of the Bible and brought it back to life with precise details. At first glance, seeing the Ark is almost so daunting that it literally takes your breath away. We are talking about a massive, Biblically full-sized 510 feet long, 85 feet wide, and 51 feet high with multiple inner levels.
The Ark itself, though, is so much more than just a story. It is a symbol of the perseverance of life through the power of our Almighty God. The Ark Encounter kept its integrity while displaying it in full view to draw millions of visitors to The One who created the waters, called up the flood waters, and drew them back.
I first visited the Ark Encounter over ten years ago when they were still in the process of developing everything around it. That which I loved even then was now made so, so much better. For starters, there is now a huge building called the Answers Center. In this building, you will find a large Gift Shop, some food options, and the main 2,500-seat Answers Center Auditorium. Here, throughout the day, you will find various speakers, worship concerts, and even live-action films/performances that are not to be missed.
What they’ve added for the kiddos and the extent of it, is truly remarkable to say the least. The Ark Encounter has a wonderful themed indoor Carousel ride. A must-see Virtual Reality Experience from Truth Travel, where you can go back in time to check out the Ark and Noah’s world as if you were really there first-hand.
Remarkably, what really blew me away was their new family playground. Of course, I wasn’t there for playgrounds, but this one was one of the best and most advanced playgrounds I’ve ever been to. It had a fast, roller-coaster-style Zipline swing, some really fun, steep slides, and so many amazing climbing structures. For the toddler crowd, there were tunnels, musical equipment, a ‘whale’ of a climbing hill, little houses, and so much more to explore.
If the playground Zipline wasn’t enough of a thrill for you, the Ark Encounter also has a Screaming Eagle Zip Line and Aerial Course. Overlooking the Ark from above, you reach speeds up to 50mph as you soar from tower to tower and even get to experience a free fall from one of them.
Behind the Ark is the impressive Ararat Ridge Zoo. Along with seeing multiple animals from around the world, you can add so much more to your time here. In this Zoo, you can enter an enclosure and pet some kangaroos, as well as a full petting zoo with goats. You can sign up for an animal encounter, like getting some one-on-one time with sloths or snakes. For only a few dollars, you can also feed a camel.
The colossal Ark has three main floors to check out and explore. It is a well of limitless information on Noah’s life, the animals, the Ark, and the Bible from around the world, where the story comes from. You get to walk through the different Biblical decades that preceded the flood to the pivotal Cross and the message of Jesus.
In the underbelly of the Ark, there is a large Gift Shop that you could spend an hour exploring. Alongside all of the trinkets, clothing, books, and decorations were also jumbo-sized cookies and some amazing coffee. In the middle of the Gift Shop, you could see them making some homemade fudge that’s rather hard to avoid.
At the Ark Encounter, if it were only the Ark to go see, then it would be enough, but now it is so much more. The Ark Encounter is a theme park to spend the whole day taking it all in. They have made this place applicable to every age and physical ability. I always say that anything that leads you to God is a good thing, and the Ark Encounter does this in the most enjoyable way. To expand on your visit, you can purchase a combo ticket and add on the Creation Museum as well.
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BODYSCAPES Ignites the Miami Design District
A Miami art experience that reimagines the female form as an evolving emotional landscape, honoring the ways women navigate vulnerability, transformation, and strength within the intimate terrain of their own bodies.
December 1, 2025
Miami is about to welcome an exhibition unlike anything else this season. A forty foot LED wall is lighting up the Design District with a monumental digital environment entirely shaped by women. BODYSCAPES, presented by Barcelona’s Load Gallery, opens its Miami edition at Jayaram Law Studio, and I was invited in early for a viewing before the public arrives.
Walking into the space felt like entering an emotional landscape rather than an exhibition. The imagery unfolded slowly at first, then washed over the room with color, motion, and softness that carried both vulnerability and undeniable strength. Bodies appeared as if carved from water and light. Figures dissolved into sky. The screen shifted from quiet introspection to powerful presence. As a woman, the experience felt deeply personal, as if the installation was acknowledging the parts of womanhood we often hold quietly.
Load founder Alex Simorré partnered with Miami attorney and arts advocate Vivek Jayaram to bring this exhibition to the United States. Jayaram shared that it is “one of the most compelling projects we have ever had the honor to host,” and after seeing it firsthand, the meaning behind those words becomes obvious.
Miami is a city that embraces complexity. Beauty, reinvention, identity, culture, movement, and resilience all coexist here. BODYSCAPES feels made for that landscape. It honors the nuance of womanhood and invites viewers to step into an immersive world that mirrors the emotional terrains women navigate every day.
Fourteen women artists, each expanding the body into something vast
BODYSCAPES features a global roster of women artists, each approaching the body as a living environment shaped by nature, memory, and emotion. Their work spans photography, digital video, AI, performance, and conceptual visual storytelling.
The full Miami lineup includes
Farrah Carbonell, Dancevatar, I M Devi, Michelle van Dijk, Alba Duque, Maria Fynsk Norup, Adaeze Okaro, Natalie Karpushenko, Emi Kusano, Christy Lee Rogers, SERIFA, Ivona Tau, X New Worlds, and Zhuk.
Together, they create a collective vision of womanhood that is fluid, surreal, grounded, and powerful.
Moments inside the exhibition that stayed with me
Alba Duque
Duque’s work confronts womanhood with radical honesty. In the group scenes, women gather across city streets and desert landscapes, walking shoulder to shoulder in underwear and soft neutrals. The effect is powerful. These bodies are unfiltered and real. They carry softness and stretch marks and strength with equal visibility. In quieter images, women hold their stomachs, hips, and thighs with a tenderness that feels both vulnerable and revolutionary. One of the most striking photographs shows a woman crouched low in the dust, holding another woman in a gesture of exhaustion and care. Another reveals a close-up of hands gripping the folds of skin on a stomach, a rare moment of truth that feels almost intimate to witness. Duque’s images celebrate women exactly as they are. No hiding. No smoothing. No pretending.

Christy Lee Rogers
Rogers’ underwater worlds feel almost cosmic. In one image, a woman floats against a star-flecked indigo sky, her white ruffled dress blooming around her like a constellation. In another, deep blue fabric twists around bodies tangled in motion, their limbs fading into shadow until they feel more like emotion than anatomy. The pink and lavender photographs toward the bottom of the page glow like memories half submerged, soft and dreamlike, as if you are witnessing a moment of surrender beneath the water’s surface.

Ivona Tau
Tau’s work shifts between digital fragmentation and bold color. One image shows a woman outlined in neon green and red, her profile dissolving into pixel-like texture that feels both artificial and strangely intimate. Another shows three women in sculptural blue forms, their bodies shaped into angular planes that look almost architectural. In the softer blue portraits, the figures’ faces melt into smooth, mask-like surfaces that suggest both anonymity and tenderness. Tau’s world is uncanny and emotional at the same time, revealing how digital distortion can expose truths rather than hide them.

Adaeze Okaro
Okaro’s photographs glow with deep amber and gold. Her women stand against a textured ochre backdrop, wrapped in flowing tulle that lifts and falls like flames. In one image, a figure is almost entirely veiled by soft orange fabric, holding a bouquet of white roses that feels ceremonial, almost sacred. In another, a woman raises her arms with slow, deliberate grace, the fabric pooling and drifting around her as if she is summoning light. The floral crown portraits are especially powerful, transforming the subject into a living sculpture of beauty, ritual, and self-possession.

What BODYSCAPES leaves you with
BODYSCAPES is not simply a digital installation. It is an emotional encounter. It views the female body not as an object but as a landscape of lived experience. Memory, tension, softness, conflict, healing, and rising strength all appear across the screen in forms that feel familiar in ways that words cannot always explain.
Standing there in the glow of the forty foot screen, I felt a sense of recognition. It was the recognition that every woman holds multitudes. That our bodies carry stories. That vulnerability and power are not opposites but companions. BODYSCAPES gives those truths space to breathe.
Miami will see many exhibitions this season, but this one feels singular. It feels like a place where women can finally be seen without restraint.
If You Go
WHAT: BODYSCAPES, a digital group exhibition presented by Barcelona’s Load Gallery
WHERE: Load Gallery Miami at Jayaram Law Studio
3800 NE 1st Avenue, Suite 500, Miami Design District
WHEN: December 2 through January 31 – open to the public December 2 to 9th, then by appointment only
COST: Free admission
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