It is worth noting that pre-Columbian weavings, often taken as abstract, are "deploying a legible language in objects with understood purpose, not unlike the ways the cross has been used in Christian regalia. Abstraction is not so much in the eye of the beholder as in her symbolic cosmology"
Susan Tallman, summarizing curator Joanne Pillsbury, in NYRB
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