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"Shadows" is not one painting, but a series in which Andy Warhol reproduces the same print over and over again in various colors. At the exhibit, the prints are lined up, side by side, against the four walls of a huge room. The repeated image displayed over and over again eventually produces the illusion that the shadows are moving.

I made a connection between A Streetcar Named Desire and the "Shadow" series in order to represent Blanche's haunting memories. Often, Blanche enters fits in which she replays the suicide of her husband over and over again in her head. To her, the memory is so real that she often feels like she is actually experiencing it again. Sometimes she hears the "Varsouviana," - the polka music that was playing when her husband killed himself - so loudly that she actually thinks it is playing somewhere. I thought that the idea of entering the "Shadows" exhibit and experiencing the illusion over and over again no matter what direction you are facing is similar to when Blanche thinks about her husband's suicide.

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