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Pat Ward Williams Virtual Tour:
Loa
1986
cyanotype on punched paper, film positive, family snapshot, windowframe, 17" x 57"
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Italicized text by Pat Ward Williams
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Loa I remembered the spirituality I had felt in Africa, and the feeling that there were parallel planes of existence. This was the idea that I wanted to portray: fully visible forces and spiritual powers inside of things that can reach out and touch the other side. fu this piece there are photographs behind and in front of the windowframe that act as a metaphor for the dichotomies of secular and sacred, past and present, fantasy and reality [1991].