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Washington explicitly considered his art to be a spiritual undertaking. "To me," he said to an interviewer on one occasion, "art is a holy land". He said of sculpting an animal, "I wait until intuition moves me, and then… I get to the point where I am the animal… I release the spiritual force into
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the inanimate material and animate it." When this happens, I feel like I'm working with flesh rather than just stone" Among his overtly religious works are a series of paintings from 1952,
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