corners; the scenes are placed so as to provide the illusion of a round space. In 2019 the center began a new lighting project that was expected to require several years to design and complete. COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns of 2020 allowed workers more intensive access to the jobsite and the installation was completed in April of 2021. Critical commentary and reaction Biesecker-Mast analyzes the mural as "a Christian rhetoric that, as a remembering and a giving, transcends the economy of exchange and possession that surrounds it." She notes that the primary theme of the mural that its story is not one but many interwoven threads, "complicated and messy" and that it was unlikely viewers would come away "with a sense of a neat chronology." According to Biesecker-Mast, Behalt is not simply a painting but three separate media: a painting, a space and a story. She adds a fourth rhetorical concept: the mural's own creation history as a struggle of a people to retain their ability to control their own narrative. Because it is not possible to view the painting from a single point, one is forced to move through the space and experience it both as "a temporary (in the sense that once cannot stay here for long) and a temporal (in the sense that this is history) boundary between the viewer and the rolling hills and crowded highways of Holmes County." Because it is impossible to capture Behalf's size in one gaze, this is, she says, the entire story -- it is too many stories and therefore impossible to fully grasp. This in turn she likens to the attempts at easy commodification of the Amish by local entrepreneurs: "Just as one cannot hold the painting in one's hands or one's gaze, the mural suggests that this history and these people are not, in fact, reducible to a singular narrative." Sue Gorisek, writing in Ohio magazine, said, "As a work of art, it's impressive....As history, it's downright chilling," with depictions of beheadings, drownings, and burnings. Gaugel informed her, "I tell people, it's good that it makes them feel uncomfortable. This should not be too easy to look at." Gorisek notes that "Gaugel has chosen to depict the bloodiest erathe mid-16th centuryin a turbulence of interwoven scenes bound together with subtle waves of a reddish hue, which can be seen as fire, or blood." The color red is used throughout to