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Ham as a prefiguration of blackness and the potential black matriarch. Elaborating on those ideas, the artist suggested that 'a moving camera obscura image in the interior of a darkened, itinerant, nineteenth-century horse-drawn carriage' would have constituted a prefiguration of the cinema, had such a thing existed. This combination was an acceptable one within a Christian context, in which Isaac was a prefiguration of Christ and the sacrifice a prophecy of the crucifixion. |
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