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‘Tragedy to transcendence’: Alice Coltrane exhibit honors jazz legend’s sonic and spiritual legacy
Monument Eternal at Los Angeles’s Hammer Museum showcases the life, music and writing of the groundbreaking artist also known as Turiya
Photograph: Joshua WhiteThe saffron-colored walls throughout the exhibition is an ode to the color Turiya wore often, which signifies her soul’s elevation to sadhu, who, in Hinduism, are those who underwent purification produced by heat, or tapasya. Photograph: Chuck Stewart Photography, LLC / Fireball Entertainment GroupThe architectural intimacy room invites visitors to experience meditative soundscapes while sitting on the ground within a bamboo curtain. Three-dimensional expressions of Coltrane’s Vedic astrology chart is materialized as a laser light show by artist Nicole Miller, its artificial solar magic creating a healing and vitality atmosphere and helping the soul remember its own higher consciousness.
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