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Sand Painting
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Sand Painting
A component of Navajo medicine which is meant to address the spiritual cause of illness


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As a child, he participated in sandpainting ceremonies with his great-grandfather, and one of the moments he is capturing is the instant when the lines of the sand blur.
Amina Para Matlon, Safeguarding Native American Sacred Art by Partnering Tribal Law and Equity: An Exploratory Case Study Applying the Bulun Bulun Equity to Navajo Sandpainting, 27 COLum.
Future critics may distinguish Jackson Pollock's cyclings from the nebulae of Dial by linking Pollock to the heating up of abstraction under the pressures of Thomas Hart Benton (his sexy lines), bop, Navaho sandpainting, Pablo Picasso, and others, linking Dial to the ring shout, hocketing fusions of voice and face and tiger.
 
 
 
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