Several years ago, LDS artist Ryan Warnick wanted to create a project "as a way of expressing my feelings about the Book of Mormon," he writes on YouTube. He felt especially drawn to the Liahona and "this metaphor for how we can receive direction from the Lord if we listen to the Spirit." Turning this project into a 3D model with scriptural descriptions accompanying it, Warnick turned this project into a way he could share his testimony.