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Article: Edward Shalala at Saint Peter's Church. (New York, New York)(Review of Exhibitions)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- February 1, 1994
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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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