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The Spirit of the Dead Keeps Watch
It took someone 130 years to find this girl, to find her story or try and excavate her story and give her a voice. So when you look at the spirit of the dead keeps watch, that painting, do you see beauty or do you see a record of a crime? I see beauty, it's like Gauguin has created something, and for me, he doesn't exist anymore," she says. "I understand her as a woman that is powerless, voiceless, but who has the power and the strength to speak out"
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