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Valerie Hird’s ‘The Garden of Absolute Truths’ Beautifully Confronts Beliefs

In Hieronymus Bosch’s triptych “The Garden of Earthly Delights” (1490-1510), the central panel depicts countless nudes enacting every imaginable fleshly pleasure. Yet something is off: Blind bacchanals happen inside hollow pieces of fruit that encase heads and torsos; one nude figure places a bouquet between the buttocks of another. The same shadow of discomfort seems […]

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