Upon my entrance of the Hindu temple, I was amazed at the extravagant statues dressed in bright colors, which illuminated the entire room-this made me curious to know more, yet I was too shy to ask questions, as I thought it may disrupt the peaceful aura of the devotees. ... Similar to Geertz analysis of religious symbols as having a "deep meaning" and "evoking powerful emotions and motivations in that religion's followers"(Guest 598), the prayer leader told me that these statues were symbols of the deities that represented the "multiple personalities" of the...

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The tobacco pipe in the center of the room is the only suggestion of any activity that these women may be participating in; its presence suggests a drugged, slightly hallucinatory vision or dreamscape. ... The abovementioned details in patters overlap so that the viewer's eyes are lead throughout the room, but no element is portrayed in its entirety, and specifically those elements located at the edge of the painting are cut off by the framing edge. ... This viewer/speaker/artist is both intimate with and distant from the woman he is viewing, forming an uneasy relationship that the read...

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