This exhibition is organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

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Bill Viola (b. 1951) is a pioneer in developing video as a major art medium. For more than forty years, he has made work that addresses life, death, and the intervening journey and is rooted in both Eastern and Western art and spiritual traditions, including Zen Buddhism, Islamic Sufism, and Christian mysticism.

This sizable barkcloth was probably hung over a rope or beam to serve as a room divider in a large house.

Tabua buli are carved and polished into crescentic shapes.