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A WHISPER, A MURMUR... CHANTS OF AN ARCANE SUSURRATION
(orality and link in—the recent work by—José Bedia)

The same is achieved with the slaughtering of an elephant as with a glass of water and a candle. The secret, or what experts call 'the sacrament or the sacred' lies—indeed—in the chant offered up to the candle and the water in the glass.
Octavio Colé
Babalawo Priest
45 years of Ifá

In a very low voice, almost as if whispering, the Cuban-American artist José Bedia has been committed—for years—to rescuing orality, leaving his mark by plotting a map across his visual work, grounded in …