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What Lies Beneath
By Elaine W. Ng
PACITA ABAD, The Village Where I Came From (detail), 1991, acrylic, oil, painted cloth on stitched and padded canvas, 244 × 173 cm. Photo by Max McClure.Courtesy the Pacita Abad Estate.
So much of art is about surfaces and appearances—whether it’s what lies on a canvas or appears on a screen, or how an object looks or a performer moves. And yet with these visual cues, we are drawn deeper into other worlds and stories.
