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While critical interrogation is a vital part of Geiger's outlook on life, she treats art as a reflective endeavor to draw an inclusive mappa mundi, on which Brazil occupies a central position as a heterogeneous "planet" magically yet very concretely floating out there. But instead of the mappa (handkerchief) indicative of imperial authority that was held by Julius, Sauli has in his right hand a pair of gloves, symbolic of his "purity and righteousness," because priests wore gloves when consecrating the Eucharist. A: The word "map" is from the Latin mappa, originally an African world. |
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