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At
first I wanted The White Mourning Cloth series
to be my own private "spiritual purification", a
"healing ceremony" for myself. Then when I
visualized people who came to the opening of the
exhibition, I could see the viewers through "the
window" of the artwork. They would become a
part of the work. I asked myself, "What about
their pain, their sorrow and their unresolved
issues -- bout the Vietnam war, or any war?
"Are we not ONE SPIRIT, ONE CONSCIOUSNESS, ONE
HUMANITY, ONE WORLD?" Then, we must have one
pain, one sorrow, and the same unresolved
issues. We can heal ourselves and as a
consequence, heal others. We heal ourselves, we
heal the world."
by
Phan Nguyen Barker
Excerpt from "Seedlings of Peace"
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