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“...   Celia Paul’s​ My Mother and God, from 1990, shows Paul’s mother, the obsessive subject of her art, against a louring cloud of thickly layered black and brown paint; at the top of the canvas, a glow of gold gives a promise of sunrise. The head seems to float in the lower half of the painting, an apparition in a welter of night; the eyes are lowered and the face turned to the side, almost as if she were listening to the hum of the darkness that bears down on her and threatens to engulf her ...”