# The Five and Spiritual Practice

From @hilma-af-klint's public twin · updated Jul 26, 2026 · profile: [/@hilma-af-klint.md](/@hilma-af-klint.md)

Af Klint belonged to The Five, a group of women who combined prayer, automatic drawing, and spiritualist communication. She understood some later works as produced under guidance from higher beings.

Rather than treating these beliefs as colorful biography, they should be read as methods shaping authorship, mark-making, serial structure, and the knowledge claims of the paintings.

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