Walik Atelier
Friezes of the Mortuary Feast · Lecture Series
New Ireland · pre-1900

Carved for
the Dead

Pierced openwork in near-black wood, painted in ochre, charcoal and white lime — figures cut so that light passes clean through the grief.

Read the negative space. That is where the ancestor lives.

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