Article: Edward Shalala at Saint Peter's Church. (New York, New York)(Review of Exhibitions)

Edward Shalala's use of fire in his work goes back to 1988, when he first experienced an Ojibwa Indian ceremony called a "sweat lodge." The purpose of the ceremony is to help people through problems in their lives by way of a very intense experience of fire and heat combined with words. The heat is provided by boulders of granite prepared in a fire. At his first sweat-lodge meeting, Shalala left the ceremony somewhere in the middle because the heat was so intense. When he saw the red-hot boulders, Shalala was reminded of what he learned when, at the age of eight, he was taken to the ruins of Pompeii, where he saw the imprint of a figure of a boy about his own age covering ...

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