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CHRISTOPHER MYERS, The Sun passed through his body, 2022
CHRISTOPHER MYERS, The Sun passed through his body, 2022
CHRISTOPHER MYERS, The Sun passed through his body, 2022
CHRISTOPHER MYERS, The Sun passed through his body, 2022

The Sun passed through his body, 2022

Appliqué textile
114 x 47 3/4 in.
289.6 x 121.3 cm
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Mlanjeni was a prophet who preceded Nongqawuse, employing some of the same rhetoric and ideas that she would later bring to the fore. He serves almost as a John the...
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Mlanjeni was a prophet who preceded Nongqawuse, employing some of the same rhetoric and ideas that she would later bring to the fore. He serves almost as a John the Baptist figure and was rumored to have great powers. Among these powers was the power to command the celestial bodies themselves.

The composition of "The Sun passed through his body," 2022, borrows from traditional images of the Egyptian goddess Nut, who similarly is depicted as eating the sun each evening and giving birth to the sun each morning.
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Private Collection, NYC
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